Deep Shot: Google, MIT Sync PCs and Smartphones with Snap of Camera [w/ video]

http://bostinnovation.com/2011/06/17/deep-shot-google-mit-sync-pcs-and-smartphones-with-snap-of-camera-video/

by spaceballs • 15 years ago

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pflats• 15 years ago

Just a heads-up for folks who can't/don't want to watch a video right now:

This is a link to a blog post with a video in it, not a direct link to a video. (I was mislead by the [video] tag; it's from the original blog post.)

sbisker• 15 years ago

OP or admin: Please change the link desc; i purposely don't click on links with [video] when I don't want to accidentially load an auto-play video (or just don't feel like watching video) but this was a good read. Thanks.

spaceballs• 15 years ago

thanks for the suggestion, title was update to indicate that the post comes with a video and is not simply a video

arethuza• 15 years ago

That makes my experiments with QR codes look a bit feeble!

athst• 15 years ago

Amazing. This would be so useful in the morning - read stuff on your computer, take it on your phone on the bus/subway to continue reading, and then throw it up on your screen at work. They should call it "torch" or something like that - feels like you're passing the olympic flame between devices.

follower• 15 years ago

The method of sending data back to the computer shown in the video is almost more impressive.

I've often found that it's easier to take a photo of event information on a computer screen rather than try to enter the information in my phone some other way--which always struck me as "wrong". The method demonstrated seems like a useful way of extending that action.

Another article on the same work: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/06/deep-shot-uses-c... (via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2665639)

orionlogic• 15 years ago

i am too lazy to hold up my phone to monitor several times a day.Hold up, open camera app, take photo, wait for process, get results. IMHO, this is right problem with wrong solution. We need an different interface. May be like the Apple's Airdrop and somekind of easy interface to push data from screen.

Lets not forget the argument that Apple made with not doing touchscreen on laptops and pc's etc.

albemuth• 15 years ago

The chrome2phone plugin works quite nicely for these cases

epiphany47• 15 years ago

jw - is there a iPad/iPhone equivalent for chrome2phone?

nburger• 15 years ago

The article seems to imply that you need a desktop app installed to extract fully-qualified URLs from the open application. I wonder why a better alternative wouldn't be to embed an encoded URL as part of the webpage itself, have the phone extract the URL from the image? Essentially a steganography-meets-QR code approach.

Deep Shot: Google, MIT Sync PCs and Smartphones with Snap of Camera [w/ video]

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