We’ve already talked about facial recognition this month in the 4cast, so I’m not going to cover that again. Still, there’s been a lot of…
Tag: location-based services
OPLIN 4cast #534: Indoor location
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Without giving it much thought, most of us have become regular users of location services in the past few years. Everytime we use GPS with…
OPLIN 4cast #484: Locating Wi-Fi users
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It’s possible that just about every library in Ohio has had people sitting outside the library using their Wi-Fi when the library is closed. That…
The “Interactive” portion of this year’s SXSW (South by Southwest) Conference ended yesterday, and as we did last year, this 4cast reports on the current buzz…
OPLIN 4Cast #194: Locating things
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Picture this: You go into a library and point your smartphone in the general direction of the shelves. Through “augmented reality” technology, labels appear on…