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TonchiDot Sekai Camera (aka World Camera): "Look Up, Not Down! We Have Patent! Imagine... Join Us!"
TonchiDot Sekai Camera was without a doubt the most amazing & hysterical presentation at TechCrunch50 this year... never seen anything like that demo, or the Q&A that came after.
The entire room was spellbound, then laughing uncontrollably at the Q&A responses ("Look Up, Not Down! We Have Patent! Imagine! Join Us!"). Almost never see Jason Calacanis & Michael Arrington speechless, but it happened. Several audience members gave the presenters a standing O.
Very cool... like the first clumsy steps toward something from a SF book: the "augmented reality" in Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows Edge", or the "locative art" in William Gibson's "Spook Country".
Posted by: BarelyFitz | Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Calacanis rebuffed criticism with, "O'Reilly, stop w/ the practical stuff!"
Posted by: Ken Berger | Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 03:26 PM
Very Howard Rheigold. I love it.
Posted by: Pete Mauro | Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 05:17 PM
Hey Dave,
I literally LMAF watching the Q&A.
That said, after revewing the videos again I realized it couldn't have been anything close to being real.
There were a number of examples that were in doors, and the level of accuracy in which they were able to pin point items without image recongition, (which I belelive was stated as one of the things they WERE NOT using) was pretty much impossible.
Regardless though, it was a pretty damn entertaining demo and I still get a chuckle thinking about the words "Join us!!!"
Posted by: Albert Lai | Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 06:59 PM
And here comes the soundclip for the Patent:
http://files.gschreiber.com/We_have_a_Patent.mp3
Posted by: Gabriel | Wednesday, October 01, 2008 at 10:59 AM