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iPhone App idea for Petco Park

Here's an idea for an iPhone app to be used in the ballpark. It's gonna revolutionize being at the ballpark.

First, watch this video:


 

Now, picture this... You show up at the game. You have this app downloaded. You activate it for your seat and suddenly it projects arrows on the quickest way to your seats from wherever you're at within the ballpark. Get close to the seats and pointing the camera at your section actually highlights the row that you're in and your block of seats.

When you get up to go to the bathroom, push a button and it highlights the nearest one. Maybe we even set up pee-pee sensors in the toilets so you can be directed to the bathroom with no line. You want a five for five? This thing sends you to the proper stall.

I'm thinking you could even augment game data with something like this. Point it at the field and it gives you a 3D rendering of Adrian Gonzalez's last home run or the ball path for the last AB.

Point it at the outfield wall and Shamu appears. How rad would that be?

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How rad with an augmented reality iPhone app be for Petco Park?
Super rad. It's like we're living in the future, except for, like, the future is now.
81 votes
Not so rad. Let's get you back to 2009, Buck Rogers.
48 votes

129 votes | Poll has closed

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I'd buy it

I’d also like it to place one of those urinal flies in the urinal.

Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play

by Axion on Aug 5, 2009 11:28 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Shamu appearing

reminds me of that promo video they played before the team takes the field, where they show various scenes of downtown and players emerging from the bay like titans, swinging a bat or pretending to throw a ball.

Maybe they could have a giant 3D Adrian burst through the infield grass when he comes to bat, demanding that you stand up.

Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you? ◔ヮ◔
Uncommon Sportsman :: Absurdity in play

by Axion on Aug 5, 2009 11:46 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

LEVANTANTE!

Chicks Dig a Low ERA Bullpen.

by eastbaysd on Aug 6, 2009 12:11 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

can it tell you when your

projectile vomitus
will not be hitting the toilet?

"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted."

Groucho Marx

by planetjeffy on Aug 5, 2009 12:23 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Weird...

I was at the game last night with someone from New York, and as I was helping to navigate to our seats, he mentioned this application and said it would be great for the ballpark. Were you walking behind us or something?

by CM Strapz on Aug 5, 2009 2:20 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Who really voted that this would not be rad?

How is that not rad????

Best Season Ever.

by Wes on Aug 5, 2009 5:07 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

It's rad

Perhaps the raddest thing I’ve seen today.

"I did not invent the wheel, I was the crooked spoke adjacent." - Aesop Rock

by John (obviousman) on Aug 6, 2009 3:58 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

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