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- Placenote is an AR framework for virtual sticky notes.
- Fun to play with, but maybe not in a position to be used for commercial applications.
- Great potential for things like asset inspections in the workplace.
Placenote is an augmented reality (AR) framework that allows us to “pin” items in a physical space and make virtual notes against them. That information can then be used by other users entering the same physical space later. The idea is: You’re viewing the world through the camera lens of your smartphone and tagging things with virtual sticky notes, for other people to read when they’re also viewing the world through the camera lens of their smartphone. It’s pretty niche.
We played around with the Placenote SDK demo app, to explore the commercial potential of this type of feature within augmented reality apps.
But as cool as the concept is, organisations who wish to use Placenote should consider the way in which the tool currently collects and stores data, as it is too dependent on Placenote’s infrastructure. The tool is still new and not proven in the enterprise space and its reliability and robustness are still to be put to the test.
Liam Byrne, Developer at Alphero shares his thoughts
"Placenote is a cool experimental framework that expands the possibilities of AR, allowing worlds to be created by persisting objects in their environments. This has many potential use cases, like saving waypoints in games at certain locations, or adding notes directly onto an asset in a substation. It also offers a custom cloud infrastructure to make handling saved object data easy. While it may not be ready just yet for commercial and enterprise applications, it is definitely worth checking out for spatial application development."