Rob’s ramblings… (sorry predictions!)
1. QR codes will become more mainstream as Smartphone handsets start to be delivered complete with QR code reader technology.
What are QR codes?
Crack the code
How do I make my own code?
QR codes for housing organisations
2. New ways of using accelerometer picture tilting technology are developing all the time. Left right, up down, move that iPhone all around.
What is it?
Using accelerometer technology in the housing sector
3. With Kinetic, Microsoft has created the only true wireless and controllerless hardware – you and your movements become the remote control. Events, exhibitions, training, home, games, fitness and engagement – this technology will be built into all hardware in the not too distant future.
Kinetic pairing – how can I use it?
The future for housing organisations
4 Augmented reality – less of a prediction, more of a reminder – and now housing relevant uses are being pioneered in the US. How long until they cross the pond?
What is Augmented reality?
Some of the best uses of AR
5. Drones, small, unmanned gadgets which pass information back to you. It’s still a bit of fun at the moment, but we’re starting to see ways that this technology could add real value.
How it works
How could it work for the housing sector?
New technology opportunities are developed every day, and only some will ever be useful for you. If you want more information on how your organisation can be more effective and create value for money, contact Rob Newell, creative digital director on 01933 409411.
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What are QR codes
QR codes are everywhere. From crisp packets to business cards, buses to billboards. If you have missed this one completely (and don’t despair, they’re often small and unexplained additions to packaging or promotions), a QR code is a little graphic that you hold your Smartphone camera over and it takes you to a specific web page. They are cheap to create, utterly trackable and easy to use - when you know how.
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QR codes for housing organisations
My advice on this one is look out, it’s coming and it’s not as hard to see the use as perhaps first thought. In two or three years time it will be a case of how did we live without QR codes, or do you remember before we had QR codes? Just think about QR codes on adverts in bus stops in your area, providing direct access to vacant property listings or local services. The ways to use this are only limited by imagination and web capability.
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What is accelerometer?
It is the technology that detects movement in your phone as you tilt it. At the moment these are really used for entertainment-based games, like driving cars or flying aeroplanes, however new ways of using this technology are evolving all the time.
Using accelerometer technology in the housing sector:
Team the accelerometer with Googlemaps... Properties could show as an icon and clicking on them would reveal a pop-out showing the prospective tenant or buyer details and availability. This could also be expanded upon to allow people to look around the area, see what the area is like, how far the local school is – even how tidy the neighbours keep the garden.
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Kinetic pairing – how can I use it?
You can pair the kinentic with a normal PC, so your movements are detected and you become the remote control. This will become much easier and more widespread once Microsoft releases the software development kit to allow this to happen. But we’re already doing it... don’t worry, it’s totally legal!
The future for housing organisations
If you pair the controllerless tech with artificial intelligence you have got personal trainers in your living room, office or wherever your computer is – the possibilities are endless. Architects are already using this to draw floor plans. And Kinetic will infiltrate the sector, with particular opportunities for tenant engagement. Just as webcams have gone from being a single unit, to being fully integrated into computers, so this technology will become integrated and begin to negate the need for a keyboard and mouse all together.
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What is augmented reality?
As virtual reality replaces the real world with a simulated one, so augmented reality gives a live or indirect view of the real physical environment – with elements created by computer generated input. The view of the environment (reality) is modified (augmented) by the computer....
Some of the best uses of AR
- The best AR apps
- Creating AR without being a coding wizzkid!
- Most useful
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Drones
How it works
It works like this: we buy a drone, such as a remote control helicopter. We connect it up with two video cameras which then feed video back to our phone as we fly it around the office, home, event or exhibition. It is relatively inexpensive to buy the equipment, and the uses of it are both fabulous and frightening.
How it could work for the housing sector
Imagine this - you are sitting in your office discussing the latest external refurbishment of a local block of flats. To make this easy you send your helicopter drone out of the window and join your colleagues and partners around your computer screen as you all enjoy the images of the block in real time. Or, you are sharing estate-based regeneration plans with residents. To illustrate this you display on a big screen the exact site and show how it relates to their home. The possibilities are endless.
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