With a beta feature called Live View, you can use augmented reality (AR) to better see which way to walk. Arrows and directions are placed in the real world to guide your way.
Is this designed for walking (/PT) directions only? Recently saw some news re: Apple patents for AR maps, intended to be used while driving 😬
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Sounds like vaporware, for places like NYC, due to the amount of intentional precision-fuzzing that is used to deter protestors and terrorists from coordinating locally.
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On Android, when I'm in a map with walking directions, there's a button called Start AR. It doesn't show up otherwise. I presume there's an equivalent in iOS - make sure you've got the latest version of Maps, of course, and it may take a while to roll out fully.
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I tried this as a beta user. TERRIBLE product. Slow, clunky. Way worse than just looking at a 2D map. The arrows constantly disappear. Surprised they released this at all.
@ideaspies1 Do you have a newsletter? I just see a "login" button which has the option to register for the site, but I'd rather just enter an email instead of creating an account. You should use Mailchimp and put it in the header/footer of every page.
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@jonnymaceachern thanks for asking. We didn't have a newsletter option as we were focussing on registrations so people could post ideas and comment. We are now testing the option but it doesn't pop up straight away so people get a chance to look at the ideas first. Can you please try it? www.IdeaSpies.com
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It seems like something that would work perfectly on next iteration of smart glasses. Hopefully Apple would produce them - I don't want to feed any more data to surveillance capitalists (I already share far too much to Google). Such glasses would be heavy and hot, though - because of needed GPU and batteries to run AR; so we need to wait another 5 years or so.
Had a chance to use this in Sydney last week. Fun idea but only practical for start of journey or if you have to stop because you're not sure where to go next.
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