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I like the traffic light indicators on the floor when I look at my phone
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Normally when you need to wait at a crossing because it's red you take out your phone to waste some time. But you have to be quite anxious and look up if it's already green or not, otherwise you miss the green light.
But they help you out with that here in Korea by building in the traffic light into the curb. You're looking down on your phone and see the red line left and right of it. Once it changes to green you immediately are aware of it because it's in your field of view constantly.
Great invention!
I took the background picture just outside and put the stock picture hands with a phone on top of it so you can easier visualize it how it looks like in reality.
Weird. I just pay attention to my surroundings myself.
Those are just as much of your surroundings as regular lights though
Just unnecessarily redundant ones for those of us not so addicted to our phones we can't last 20 seconds without looking at them.
I know! Maybe they need traffic lights built into phones! As you approach a traffic light, they link up with the intersection and tint your screen green and red depending on the walk/don't walk status! You'd never have to look up from your phones again!
That's the idea behind AR glasses.
Don't let pesky reality get in the way of the ad stream ever again
fuck that, GPS is meant to be off except when it helps me
Who said anything about GPS, though? It could easily be those "bluetooth beacons", right?
You don't even need to pay special attention, peripheral vision and the changing sound of cars is more than enough of a hint that the light might have changed.
There are a whole lot more threats than cars at crossings that you might like to be aware of.
(And before people straw man this, it's an example selected for comedy potential, not a comprehensive list of all possible environmental hazards you might want to keep aware of.)
there are risks associated with phones, yes? increased likelihood of becoming a meal is one of them
Yes, that's where peripheral vision comes into play.
Yes, let's just ignore almost a century of research on perception and go with that, shall we?