Who here plays Pokemon Go?

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@scottalanmiller said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@DustinB3403 said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@NattNatt said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@DustinB3403 said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@NattNatt said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@scottalanmiller said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@coliver said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

Hopefully he is charged with the texting and driving crime. It is pretty strict in NY.

But he wasn't texting. He was distracted. The texting law is a weird one that suggests that the distracted law has no teeth or that texting is not a distraction. NY has always had a no distracted driving law and that's what applies here.

Yeah the UK law is that you cannot use a mobile phone while driving, no exceptions etc, just straight up nope.

So no hands free device support at all?

What about cars with bluetooth built in?

hands free is allowed, but has to be the type of system where you don't need to interact with your phone, i.e. putting the phone on loudspeaker is not allowed iirc

Well that makes sense at least.

How can any system exist where you don't need to interact with the phone when the act of talking to it is interacting.

You're arguing the semantics of the law. Are you sure you aren't a politician?

English law is a game of semantics. Semantics is the very heart of law. Semantics is really just another word for accuracy. And laws that are inaccurate are just a form of institutional discrimination.

scottalanmiller

@NattNatt said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@scottalanmiller said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@NattNatt said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@DustinB3403 said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@NattNatt said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@scottalanmiller said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@coliver said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

Hopefully he is charged with the texting and driving crime. It is pretty strict in NY.

But he wasn't texting. He was distracted. The texting law is a weird one that suggests that the distracted law has no teeth or that texting is not a distraction. NY has always had a no distracted driving law and that's what applies here.

Yeah the UK law is that you cannot use a mobile phone while driving, no exceptions etc, just straight up nope.

So no hands free device support at all?

What about cars with bluetooth built in?

hands free is allowed, but has to be the type of system where you don't need to interact with your phone, i.e. putting the phone on loudspeaker is not allowed iirc

How is that different than anything else? Most US cars themselves are also mobile phones. Can you not have OnStar in the UK?

I guess because you don't look at the phone, so not distracted as much, and just press a button? who knows ahaha...

And never heard of OnStar?

OnStar is the satellite mobile phone system built into every GM vehicle. The car calls home regularly, can be used as a phone, etc.

Kelly

It would be neat to build a bluetooth display that is similar to google glass, just so that people can go about their normal business, but still enjoy the game.

DustinB3403

@Kelly said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

It would be neat to build a bluetooth display that is similar to google glass, just so that people can go about their normal business, but still enjoy the game.

Eh... how would you throw the pokeball?

Kelly

@DustinB3403 said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@Kelly said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

It would be neat to build a bluetooth display that is similar to google glass, just so that people can go about their normal business, but still enjoy the game.

Eh... how would you throw the pokeball?

You'd get out your phone when you found one.

DustinB3403

Ok so just a hud so you can see what is around you.

And phone to capture.

Eh I could see a market.

Kelly

@DustinB3403 said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

Ok so just a hud so you can see what is around you.

And phone to capture.

Eh I could see a market.

And then you develop a full AR system that costs quite a bit more that would allow you to throw as well. I was just thinking of something more inexpensive so that Ninatic (SP?) doesn't have to deal with legal battles, etc. from people getting hurt.

DustinB3403

If google glass was still around and didn't cost $1500 for the basics, I could actually see this being a really neat match up.

Would be an awesome thing to play with for sure.

I wonder how the Samsung 3D display would work with this. I haven't used one before.

I wonder if you could put your phone onto the headset, and just walk outside with that on.

IRJ

@DustinB3403 said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

If google glass was still around and didn't cost $1500 for the basics, I could actually see this being a really neat match up.

Then people would really get hit by a truck when crossing the street

DustinB3403

@IRJ said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@DustinB3403 said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

If google glass was still around and didn't cost $1500 for the basics, I could actually see this being a really neat match up.

Then people would really get hit by a truck when crossing the street

Maybe

But my idea with the Samsung VR would be to just take in the surounding as a live image, and overlay the pokemon onto that. As it does with your phone now anyways.

Thinning out the gene pool isn't the worst thing that could happen would it?

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@IRJ said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

@DustinB3403 said in Who here plays Pokemon Go?:

If google glass was still around and didn't cost $1500 for the basics, I could actually see this being a really neat match up.

Then people would really get hit by a truck when crossing the street

Maybe

But my idea with the Samsung VR would be to just take in the surounding as a live image, and overlay the pokemon onto that. As it does with your phone now anyways.

Thinning out the gene pool isn't the worst thing that could happen would it?