ViPR Mobile Visual Search Engine for iPhone

[Island Dog]

Overall it's pretty interesting, I guess.

 

[Orelhas]

*cough cough* along with itunes connection a btorrent or ed2k link and i think it might be a killer app *cough cough*
Nice app, might be useless though, then again, maybe not. Depends on who's using it.

 

[Peel]

Anybody catch what that email address was, and the special code?

 

[batchtaster]

Any camera-phone can open up the Wifi iTunes store and bring up the item you were looking at?

Don't think so.

Okay, clearly you either didn't watch it, you you weren't paying attention when you did. This has *nothing* to do with the Wifi iTunes Store. You:

1. Take a photo
2. Send it to a special email address for the ViPR service
3. Wait
4. Check your mail
5. Open up the new email from ViPR
6. Read the new ViPR email

See? No iTunes Store. It doesn't even go anywhere near Apple (and seriously, where on earth did you get the notion that it did?!?). They could conceivably add iTunes URLs into the information returned, just as you can email iTunes URLs to people today, just as they seem to have put in Amazon URLs.

And all those steps, you know, those 1-6 that I numbered above, see them there? All could be done on any phone. See? Steps 1-6, not involving Apple, not doing anything any camera-phone can already do? Yeah, think you might be getting it now, me being right and all that...

Where does a 3rd party 'iPhone App' come into play in this process?!

THANK YOU. Exactly what I was saying. I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't see an 'iPhone App' out of this service.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

It's the end of the world as we know it, it's the end...

Finally, no longer will we be bothered with looking these luxury items up ourselves. Now I can finally buy more crap even faster! It is truly an amazing leap forward in excess and laziness! All my dreams have come true! More more more! I gotta have more *INSERT MASS-MARKET CONSUMER PRODUCT HERE*.

Half the worlds population starves to death and dies of diseases, meanwhile we sit on our butts getting excited about minutely easier ways to buy crap we don't need. It's good to live among the filthy rich, innit?

How about, instead of ten million iphones converting people to read-only "players" of censored and corporate-approved content like good little zombies, we write some apps that let ten million people become read/write "creators" and actually make some kind of contribution.

 

[batchtaster]

How about, instead of ten million iphones converting people to read-only "players" of censored and corporate-approved content like good little zombies, we write some apps that let ten million people become read/write "creators" and actually make some kind of contribution.

Because we have that already. It's called YouTube. It's a nice, socially responsible, equalizing theory, for ten million people to have their own voice and be heard, away from the corporate fat-cats who want to enslave us all (and so on and so forth; feel free to add your own rhetoric here). Except that what we learned from YouTube is that ten million people are uninteresting, attention-seeking nobs.

 

[hierobryan]

How about, instead of ten million iphones converting people to read-only "players" of censored and corporate-approved content like good little zombies, we write some apps that let ten million people become read/write "creators" and actually make some kind of contribution.

It's more important for people to "connect", as in Myspace/Facebook, rather than be a "player" or "creator". People long to be connected to other people. You guys already know this I'm sure.

And ya, www.kooaba.com has already done this picture recognition thing.

 

[happydude]

In the wild, would be cool to identify what type of flower, tree or bird/animal one came across..
also face recog would be interesting... Gee that guy next to me looks like someone I saw up ok the post office wall...
Hmmmm

let's hope it never gets that sophisticated, a little too big brother for me . . .

 

[ThunderSkunk]

Because we have that already. It's called YouTube. It's a nice, socially responsible, equalizing theory, for ten million people to have their own voice and be heard, away from the corporate fat-cats who want to enslave us all (and so on and so forth; feel free to add your own rhetoric here). Except that what we learned from YouTube is that ten million people are uninteresting, attention-seeking nobs.

Oh. Yeah. Youtube.

Touche.