The CrowdOptic app for iPhone overlays statistics in real-time, enhancing performers, players, and songs.
Imagine watching a basketball game and seeing all of the vital statistics surround your favorite player without taking your eye off the game. CrowdOptic aims to visually enhance the event experience through a heads-up display on an iPhone. Instead of marketing to consumers, however, CrowdOptic is able to charge event organizers, sports managers, and advertisers a (sizable) premium for hyper-detailed analytics of knowing which performers are most popular and when. While the app itself is certainly a step forward, what it represents is the next stage in the event experience.
Clever readers may know that commercial optical recognition, such as Google Goggle’s, hasn’t advanced to the point where users can snap a picture to identify a person, let alone a moving target. CrowdOptic works by sensing the iPhone’s GPS location, compass heading, and time of day to know which object is most likely being viewed through the iPhone screen. It needs at least one other user looking at the same object to triangulate the position. Thus, it can tell which band is on stage, which side of a tennis court a player is on, or which soccer player is running down field.
CrowdOptic then overlays the screen with data such as the name of the song being played, say, or the point guard’s free throw percentage. “Its the live action that matters,” says founder Jon Fisher. Users can then snap photos, and share with friends across the social media universe.
Continues at: Next Generation Augmented Reality Will Transform Live Events | Fast Company.
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