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The latest out of Nokia’s wonderful, magical Beta Labs is Image Space, which stitches together pictures shared from their phone to Flickr into a 3D environment. By combining GPS coordinates and compass metadata, pictures are arranged and overlapped with one another to create a location-contextualized slideshow. Image Space is basically identical to what Google has been doing with Street View and Panoramio, but I can hardly blame them since this is such a great idea. “Copy with pride”, right? To be fair, the mobile aspect and taking into account compass data does give Image Space a bit of an edge.
I love this stuff. Before long, we’ll all be continually streaming video from cyborg eyes to the cloud, and having individual frames contextualized in this same way to create a perfect 3D virtual replica of the world. Maybe I’m getting ahead of myself. To get started, hit up the labs.
[via Nokia Beta Labs]
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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
