Marsbot for AirPods

Your audio guide to the city from Foursquare

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Marsbot for AirPods is your audio guide to the city. It’s not a walking tour, but rather a running commentary about interesting places you walk by on the street which is whispered into your AirPods or regular wired headphones.

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Launch tags:

iOS•Artificial Intelligence•Augmented Reality

Launch Team

Ryan Hoover

Product Hunt

I'm a big fan of audio-driven experiences. We need more exploration here. I was an early beta tester and love the idea of turning cities into UGC "audio tours and recommendations". While very different than @andrewmason's Detour, it has a lot of similarities.

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4yr ago

Andrew Mason

Descript

@rrhoover I'm so glad to see that @dens & co are taking a bite at this... if anyone can crack it, they can! When we built Detour, we loved the idea of "wander around and get little tidbits" idea but there was a chicken/egg problem as a startup in getting content saturation. Also we tried a couple of the apps that do that in specific neighborhoods and the novelty kinda wore off quickly. So we went for these epic highly produced hour-long walks, but that had it's own problems... Looking forward to trying this!

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4yr ago

Dennis Crowley

Marsbot for AirPods

Maker

@rrhoover @andrewmason Oh hey! Hope you're well! We *definitely* have the chicken/egg problem w/ user-generated audio, but as an R&D project we're just gonna roll the dice and see if it fixes itself organically. I think the new novel thing here is more: "it's NOT an on/off thing and an immersive experience ... it's an always-on thing and a very lightweight experience"

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4yr ago

Kristofer™

CollageMo

"Audio as a 'Poor Man’s Augmented Reality'" is a great line.

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4yr ago

Chris Messina

Ambassador

Hunter

So much potential here — was cool to hear about this last year at Betaworks' Hearing Voices summit. Augmented audio reality may be much easier to pull off than visual AR — if the latter requires the adoption of a new device formfactor (i.e. glasses).

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4yr ago