Why iphone compass

Such an innovation in the iPhone, like a compass, to the feet caused bewilderment - they were expecting something more. But perhaps it was not enough for him to bring the relationship between the real and virtual worlds to a new level.

1. At the first stage, everything is quite simple: with the help of the built-in compass, you can orient the built-in map correctly. Even specialized navigators are now adapted primarily for vehicles and allow you to determine the direction exclusively in motion, so that the iPhone will be an ideal companion for a pedestrian.
   
   
2. Then you can try to integrate this business with the location sensor in space and do something similar to Street View , but independently controlled by the movements of the phone. Thus, the “propaganda” through it will be possible to see information about the area around: for example, a list of organizations located in a particular building.
3. After that, the time will come to generate similar content to users. Already, StreetView is integrated with Panoramio and provides an opportunity to see what a place looks like not with the eyes of Google Mobile, but on normal photos. Perhaps the phones will have the option to easily upload the taken photos to the central server, noting not only the GPS coordinates, but also the location of the device in space. Since, in addition, the shooting time and the technical characteristics of the camera are known, all this will allow you to create an information cast of various places with slices in time and the ability to move in space. Something like Photosynth , but with a much smaller number of unknowns in determining the location of images.
   
   The scenarios for using the resulting panoramas can be very different - with access from computers or the same mobile devices - for example, the ability to rewind what is visible through the camera now in time.
   
   If you add the possibility of videotape here, fantasy has no limits.

It is not known who will do this: Apple itself, Google with Microsoft (the laboratories of the latter have already released something for the iPhone) or some unknown startup so far - but it’s clear that we already have a hardware platform capable of izminit how we look at the world around!