Proximity triggered phone app loading/unloading in Meat Space (physicalworld)
Since the portable handheld computing and communications device (AKA the phone) is becoming the defacto ubiquitous interface to the world, we need apps that are installed /deinstalled automatically based on proximity to a physical location.
So, you walk into Target store and the store's apps auto load. When u leave they unload. Like when you visit a web site it loads in your browser. Instead, when you visit a physical URL AKA a store / house / park / beach / zoo / gravesite / grand canyon the appropriate, sandboxed, context aware app loads.
If this hasn't been patented yet, i claim patent pending on the idea.
Think how cool it would be if you wandered up to somebodies grave site marker and your phone started showing a film clip of their life? or an interactive app that you could see different details about them? or like a new version of the hall of presidents, a virtual, simulated, AI based avatar of them you could nteract with, as tho they weren't dead? Cool and creepy, all at the same time.
If it was a retail store, you could give store navigation, special offers, research tools, gift suggestions, ... yeah, that might just be annoying but then again.
At the museum or zoo ... you get the idea.
Or how about in schools / universities. You enter a classroom and BANG the apps for that class period install.
So, who wants to build this with me (meaning who wants to fund it?)
Contact me and lets get it going!
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