Geeking out for a second

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The Starbucks Giggle©

While reading the article about my fictitious, overly lonely macbook-humping alter ego.

iNeedCoffee Quick look (video)

Zenitum, the company I currently work for, released their first iPhone Augmented Reality application, amazingly non-creatively called iNeedCoffee. As the title implies, the app allows you to find nearby coffee shops in and around Seoul using either the map view or the Augmented Reality view which, basically, shows a couple of floating icons on top of a camera view.

The application is still in it’s earliest of early stages (one wonders why they even released it), but I for one like to think positive when looking at Zenitum’s future. I’m very curious to see if they can go beyond this phase and come out with an application and/or use for Augmented Reality that works well, looks good and makes me want to use it.

I didn’t really want to do the whole twitter shouting and/or dry-ass article-writin’, so instead decided to head out to Starbucks with a camera and cameraman and whip up a quick-’n-dirty video overview of the application. As the original video was a bit, ehm, out of focus, I made a second video with the camera completely focussed on the iPhone. I also asked my friend JuSung (the cameraman) to take a shot at giving an overview in Korean. Aren’t we just super awesome?

Hopeo you guys enjoy, or at least get a giggle out of my god-awful stage skills. Woo.