Re: Is Location Critical to a POI

I agree with you. I am  not suggesting a separate definition of a person but
rather a location-less POI that is tied by something like image recognition
as you suggest. We are currently driving the spec to include a number of
building blocks like a location primitive which is mandatory. I think this
location-less  POI could cover a number of other scenarios like the how to
make a conference call that Jay Wright at Qualcomm mentions in his talks.

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Thomas Wrobel <darkflame@gmail.com> wrote:

> Surely this would be covered be just letting any data be linked to a
> non-fixed location?
>
> I certainly see value in tyeing POI information to non-fixed
> co-ordinates, even given by image recognition, markers, RFID or some
> other technology. But I'm not sure I see value it tieing it to a
> "concept" such as a person - because theres no way to locate a person
> without using some other technology.
>
> Generally speaking, AR is about linking digital information to the
> real world. You can link something to a person already ver, say, an
> address book. But without a way to get this into the real world, its
> not really relevant to AR.
>
> So I'd say "+1" to tyeing any data to generic moving objects....which
> could include people.
> So that would be [method of identification - image/RFID/marker] tied
> to [data/url etc], where the data or url could describe a person, or
> be a link to a profile online or an existing standard format.
>
> But I don't think theres any benefit to having a separate definition
> for a person directly in the POI spec, as a lot could be said about a
> person and I think it would be making the POI spec too large to deal
> with it on its own. At the same time specifying a person doesn't help
> a device know when/where to display the information.
>
> Better to focus on the "link" between the real and the virtual, and
> let the actual data being linked to be anything.
>
> -Thomas Wrobel
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> On 18 January 2011 17:03, Andy Braun <ajbraun@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I hope all are following the work on the POI wiki, in particular the Core
> > Draft ( http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/wiki/Core/Draft )
> > Clearly location is a critical and identifying piece of most POIs,
> however
> > there has been discussion around AR related POIs that not tied to a
> > particular location.
> > One such example is that of a person. A common discussed use case is to
> use
> > augmented reality to attach a person likes or dislike to their physical
> > being rather than just an online profile.  A person can easily be
> > represented by the existing spec with the exception that a person's
> location
> > is transient (certainly more so then a building). I would ask for
> feedback
> > from the larger group on how important it is that a POI is tightly tied
> to a
> > location as I think this is an important AR POI use case to consider.
> > Andy
> >
>