Tagging your world with the iPhone
Over at the blog Future of Real Estate Marketing (and if you aren’t reading it you’re really missing out!), Joel had a great post on a new iPhone app from the Japanese company Tonchidot called Sekai Camera (World Camera).
“TonchiDot’s idea is to use the iPhone camera and location awareness as a mobile information interface. Using the Sekai Camera application you can tag real-world locations and simultaneously view the tags shared by other users – Tonchidot calls it ‘Air Tagging.’”
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“And it brings up obvious applications for real estate. Imagine a real world property tour (boots on the ground, walking through a home) where you could instaneously access Zestimates or property data, read individual tags on the features in a room or listen to audio clips describing the amenities through the Sekai Camera terminal.”
It probably helps that Japan has a robust 3G network in place to make all this possible. And I can’t say the thought of everyone walking around staring at their iPhone screens is very comforting, but in the right place and time it could be really powerful…
