Saturday 27 November 2010

The naked app

This is the sort of application that will be very popular with lad
culture. It's the sort of application that will viral because people
will want to show it off to their friends. The novelty may wear of
quickly which is why it may be a marketing or promotional application
rather than one people might buy.

Simple it does the stuff of science fiction. It makes people naked.

It doesn't require much from phone hardware. A good camera, the video
screen and a processor with 3D optimisation should be enough.

Digital cameras already feature face detection algorithms and they're
pretty accurate. Identifying a body beneath the head shouldn't be too
hard. With the elements of the body identified it's easy enough to
overlay a naked form in the video view.

The more difficult part is the orientation and body position of the
person. This application will work when people are walking straight at
the user but if they're sitting down or at an oblique angle to the
camera the application needs to be able to identify this and render the
overlay image appropriately. This makes the application much more complex.

But it's a gimmick application. It's the sort of think certain companies
that use sex to advertise, e.g. Lynx, would want to use. It doesn't need
to be totally robust because it's just a bit of fun. It will viral very
well though.

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