Marsbot for AirPods

Your audio guide to the city from Foursquare

2 followers

Your audio guide to the city from Foursquare

2 followers

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.

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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5yr 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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5yr 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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5yr ago

Kristofer™

CollageMo

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

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5yr 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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5yr ago

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Marsbot for AirPods

Your audio guide to the city from Foursquare

Your audio guide to the city from Foursquare

Marsbot for AirPods

Your audio guide to the city from Foursquare

Your audio guide to the city from Foursquare

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