All of this sounds great for outdoor navigation, but then again, if you're outdoors with good GPS, you don't really need video navigation, a map will do the trick. Video is best for indoor navigation, which is where positioning is the hardest to do, so your approach doesn't work there.
Would be what you would assume - but here is the reality. Pilots with 1st person POV nav have been highly successful for consumer indoor navigation. For asset tracking, position matters. For consumers trying to get where they are going, they could care less about positioning.
Blue dot navigation has failed because it doesn't translate to I door spaces. Video with motion aware playback gives the illusion of an AR experience - but avoids the drift issues that plagued AR driven experiences.
I can cite for you plenty of 1st person POV pilots where the consumer feedback has been exceptional
Are you saying this doesn't do any kind of positioning? Just plays when the accelerometer shows movement and stops when it doesn't? I need to try this at some point because it really feels like that wouldn't work. People walk at different speeds so the video would desync, take a wrong turn or incorrectly recognise landmarks so the video would be completely wrong... What's the error recovery procedure here?
Might just need to try it if you say it works well. Hopefully I find some time to nuke the blockchain out of this and set up a test instance for our university.
Correct - no positioning at all. Just get the user where they want to go.
MotionAware playback. And yes! You are asking all the right questions.
Desync from the video playback is a known problem with 1st person POV nav - many different ways to tackle it. I haven't implemented them yet - right now I am focused on building a Stableframe feature that allows the creators to upload video that hasn't been recorded with a gimbal and will stabilize the frame the get rid of the vertical bounce when people walk and record routes
The other side to the equation is you have a ton of CXOs that got burned on cap ex trying to use bluetooth beacons to implement effective indoor way finding solutions
You tell a CXO they can have indoor wayfinding to improve patient experience scores and there is no cap ex because there is no hardware - there is literally zero reason to turn it down.
They have nothing to lose and everything to gain
Well yes, that's kind of my point. I understood "just use a peertube instance and the web geolocation api" to mean using GPS for location. Outdoor navigation is more or less solved, but indoor doesn't benefit from GPS at all, so you need some other positioning system. I've worked on a few deployments of different systems and yeah, expensive, annoying, and usually still unreliable.
Like I said in the other comment, if you can make it good without any indoor positioning, that's a killer feature. I just...have my doubts...
The are limitations for sure without positioning. From first hand experience, humans just prefer the 3D experience because, and this is kind of sad but kind of expected, people just want to keep their heads buried into their phones instead of looking at the world around them. So if you give them a video route that can get them from the entrance of the building to where they need to be (and serve them ads $$ along the way) - the UX wins - sans positioning
But in the event of an emergency evacuation when you have no idea where that device is in the building - you are up a creek