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2015
In 2015, five years after the GPS (Global Positioning System)was no longer a new born in the technology world, the AbleEye Company proudly presented the Navigation Eyepiece (NE), which the GPS is only one of the great systems that was programmed into the it. As the knowledge was commonly known, a GPS is an electronic compass that can calculate heading, latitude, and longitude. It is unaffected by not only the magnetic field, but also the weather and time of the day. Its resources were provided by a U.S. space-based global navigation satellite system, which received broadcast signals when the search of a specific location was called upon. The NE was the combination of 3D Mapping GPS(released in 2011) and the ‘experience it’ virtual reality program (released in 2013). Along with the traditional navigation that gave users distance and direction information, it also provided a perspective point of view and 3D data such as the length and width of a road, a brigde or a river, and height of a building, a tree, or a mountain. The NE consisted of two action modes: the ‘Ahead’, ‘Now’. In the ‘Ahead’ mode, the NE showed what was happening in twenty steps ahead and beyond in the present, which was extremely useful in situations such as having unseen obstacles around the corner. The ‘Now’ mode focused on the now moment, and the eyepiece lenses automatically switched to clear lenses, which users can view what was right in front of them with both eyes. One issue that the AbleEye Company had to strongly emphasized on was the NE was not intended to be used to predict what would happen down the road but to show users of what was happening in the present.
2020
In 2020, ten years after 2010, and five years after the birth of the Navigation Eyepiece, AbleEye once again proved its worthy leading place in the invention field with the latest product, the Go-There (GT). The company had abandoned the eyepiece style three years ago due to the users’ increased amount of complaints. They did not enjoy having a piece of device around their eyes for a long period of time, and since the images they saw in the eyepiece were too real, it gave them headache and nauseous feeling. For GT, it is a small hand held device approximately a size of a old style USB people used to have ten years ago. It worked similarly to the eyepiece, with the arrows keys, the selection of ‘Now’ and ‘Ahead’ modes, and a newly added monitor that replaced the job of presenting the 3D images. Though there were one great difference, a third mode was created.
The ‘Stay Put’ mode, the users could stay at where they were, by pressing the arrow keys on the eyepiece, it would then bring them to their destanation as if they were going there by themselves. The network of a NE is boundless, a user could choose to go for a walk in a park, go for a hike in a trail, or even to go visit a different country. This ‘Stay Put’ was the most popular feature of the device. It is especially loved by people who immigranted to another country. With the help of a NE, they were able to ‘go’ back to their home contry and enjoy the experience of being in a familiar place.
Yet, residents and shop owners expressed their worries, that their privacy was being invaded by a ‘Stay Put’ mode user. The user might take the advantages of being an invisible visitor and charge into the house or store while they were taking a shower or turning on a lock to go through a security door. AbleEye then promised that this kind of situation would never happened, because they had set a system that blocked a user from entering a private proterty or area that required admission without given his or her user ID and granted permission from the owner.
Travel agents once protested that this new technology would cause a difficult time in their work field. Since users can now stayed home an enjoy the ‘experiences’ of going on a vacation, the price of the airplane tickets and tour fees would be forced to decrease in order to attract customers. Yet, AbleEye assured them that no harm would be done because the real world would never be replaced by a virtual environment on a navigation system. The company also reminded that places such as the Louvre fell under the category of places that required admission, and the NE users were not able to enter without permission.
2029
In the year of 2029, its the year of celebration for AbleEye has written history. After ten years of rapid expansion and significant transformation, the Go-There is now the Be-There(BT).
Twenty-two years ago, the Cisco TelePresence On-Stage Experience demonstrated a Telepresence experience at Bangalore. During the presentation, the Cisco CEO situated in San Jose “beamed up” and interacted with the host on stage. Using the same but modified idea of the Digital Video and tele-immersioin room, Be-There is born. It creates a projected high-definition three-dimensional representation of a person, object, or landscape. It has the old ability to navigate, all three modes of ‘Now’, ‘Ahead’ and ‘Stay Put’, and other little features such as the clock and internet. It is small and light, and has a size of a watch which users can wear it as a wrist band.
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