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This is is a cool way to drive a ball round the office. The phone of cause has all the goodies inside it to send the message to the ball to turn and change direction and so on….
Is this a way to control our Opensim and SL Avatars. Could the phone act like a mouse, it’s already on the network via wifi ?? Could it mimic my movements and relay it to my Avatar mmmmm…

My HTC magic phone had an OTA update today from Android 1.5 to 1.6 I have only had the phone for less than a week and it obviously had the older version of Android installed when I got it. I did try to force an update but no luck, then asked the friendly people at Vodafone to look in to it, the update come automatically today. It downloaded over 3G. Why? I don’t know The Wi Fi was on and it would have been my preferred way to download but no big deal.

I downloaded Google Goggles and started to play with visual search. It is impressive, I know it is only the beginning but still I can’t help but marvel at it all. I took a photo of my camera and in Google search it picked it 100% right. The barcode scanner also works well, even my tiny qr code on my Skype contact list scans in perfect, then with a tap on the screen the details are in “my contacts” just wonderful. GPS, Maps, Google Latitude, Gmail, Picasa and the rest all perform just like on my PC. Now I want to take some of the 3D homes we built in Opensim and place them on vacant lots of land, show them on the phone camera via a marker or GPS position, merge them in to the picture as some form of AR ? This might be possible with some help from 3DI in the browser plugin anyone have some ideas please ?? I think an interesting and fun way to demo new ideas in home designs, town planning and wot not……