"Firefly recognizes a hundred million different items in real-world situations," Bezos said.
Use-case examples for the API cited by GoSquared include a "trending articles" widget on a publisher's site, a real-time analytics dashboard for internal use (GoSquared is eating its own dog food here by using the API to power its own offering), a 3D visualisation of where in the world visitors are coming from, or an e-commerce site offering visitors discounts on popular items in real-time.
In San Francisco, the company partnered with a few local coffee shops to display the sofa on sale, allowing customers to see the item in real life before purchasing.
If you are using an item in real life and are drawing it onto your canvas, draw difficult areas by looking at the space around the figure rather than at the figure itself.
I play a lot of free games and rarely buy games for my phone – I never buy items in-game with real money.
Half the fun is seeing just how much those items cost in real life: Those Proenza Schouler woven skirts and tops for fall averaged $4,000 a pop.
The car and the housing booms were intimately linked, with average individual expenditure on these items tripling in real terms between 1941 and 1961.
Flow uses augmented reality to help users explore and discover tens of millions of products in a real world setting, including books, DVDs, packaged electronics and toys, to give shoppers interactive product information about these items in the real world.
The Xenote iTag, now in early testing in San Francisco, is a way to bookmark items in the real world, just as we now bookmark interesting Web pages.
When shopping for hot or deeply discounted items in the real world, of course, people can drive up to a store and survey the length of the line in the parking lot, then choose whether or not to fight the crowds for the low-cost television or the dress or suit in just the right size.
