Mapping As Well As The Physical Web

I spent most of this morn hunting downwards 3D-printed creatures which were hiding inward the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park inward London. There are fifteen of these creatures hidden unopen to the park, which you lot tin forcefulness out honor amongst the Tales From the Park interactive map.

Tales of the Park is a novel digital sense created past times UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). Using an interactive map you lot tin forcefulness out hunt downwards fifteen 3D-printed creatures which bring been placed unopen to the park. When you lot locate a beast you lot tin forcefulness out fifty-fifty chat amongst it using your smartphone to larn to a greater extent than nigh the park.

If you lot bring Bluetooth too location sharing on your smartphone the creatures volition automatically mail you lot a notification when you lot are inward unopen proximity. Tales of the Park uses Google's Physical Web technology to mail you lot these messages. This technology uses depression unloosen energy Bluetooth beacons to connect you lot amongst the creatures over the internet. If you lot bring the physical spider web alternative activated on your smartphone you lot automatically have a notification which allows you lot to get-go chatting amongst the creature.

It is pretty skillful fun tracking downwards these creatures too chatting amongst them to larn to a greater extent than nigh the park. Tales of the Park is also a neat representative of how the Physical Web too Bluetooth beacons tin forcefulness out travel used to connect physical objects to the web. There is champaign a huge potential hither for information to travel attached to physical objects that passers-by tin forcefulness out thus access from their smartphones.