[miniatureape]

I would really love a control-f for the real world.

Imagine you have a list of wines you want to try, or used books you’re hoping to buy.

In the store you open your phone and scan the shelves with your camera and if it finds any matches from your lists, it shows you them on the screen.

[pjmorris]

Same. I've imagined 'spines.com' for books, where the work of linking book spines to ISBN's, etc, has been crowdsourced and you can point your phone camera at a shelf and look up reviews, etc.

[throwoutway]

When I visit spines.com it does a redirect to a self-publishing tool called booxAI.com . I don't think that's what you were referring to, or did the spines tool sell their domain name?

[buildsjets]

Apple iOS does this, kindasorta, but it's not real time. It does text recognition on text on images in your photostream, and you can search for text in your photos using the search bar.

[greggsy]

Apple lidar is absolutely suited to this, and I’ve always thought there is an opportunity to integrate it into the dollhouse addon in Homeassistant.

Or, create a digital twin of your garden, and simulate light shadows throughout the day after adding or removing a tree. Add pruning schedules to a fruit tree.

It’s trivial to do a scan, but it hasn’t really taken off in a practical sense.

[boulos]

It took me a while to realize digital twin got autocorrected to digital town here :).

[lathiat]

Vivino sort of kind of can do that. Has a rapid multi scan mode for shelves. Not quite the pointy AR experience yet though.

[KTibow]

Gemini can help with this but it has a large amount of overhead compared to dedicated models