This is an interesting map to play around with. It allows you to see how many 15-minute neighborhoods and cities there are around the world. And it works by calculating the average time it takes to walk or bike to the closest 20 points of interest in 10,000 cities. These points include all of the usual suspects like places of work, schools, healthcare institutions, grocery stores, and so on. A blue cell indicates an average walk time < 15 minutes, and a red cell indicates an average walk time > 15 minutes. The darker the color, the shorter or longer the average time in minutes.
By this measure, it's hard to beat many/most European cities. Here are Paris and Barcelona:
The city propers are completely blue, and you have to go pretty far out (or up into mountains) to find areas that don't have 15-minute conveniences.
Toronto has a strong core and isn't terrible overall, but expectedly, we aren't as uniform and as deep blue as Paris and Barcelona:
Where things get really interesting, though, is when you look at cities like Dallas and Houston:
It's clear where these cities stand on walkability.
This is one example of how AR (augmented reality) can be used in a large retail store:
https://twitter.com/AndrewHartAR/status/1722307291888656764?s=20
In this particular case, it's an example of a customer being guided to a particular screw in a large hardware store.
The company, which is called Hyper, is also working to expand their product to other physical locations, such as malls, campuses, airports, and hospitals. And broadly speaking, their mission is to "build the digital layer for the physical world."
Where they have started seems to make a lot of sense. If I'm in a large hardware store and I'm trying to find a very specific product, I'd be more than happy to pull out my phone and have it guide me there.
I could also see myself pulling out my phone if I were standing in Yosemite National Park and I wanted to know all of the important points-of-interest. So from these perspectives, AR seems obviously useful.
But these are discrete moments in time. I'm looking for something right now, help me. And this is arguably how we will all start regularly using AR -- with our phones for brief periods of time.
But at some point, it is likely to become more seamless and constant. Maybe that sounds far fetched (or completely undesirable). But I'm still hoping that this becomes possible with a cool pair of sunglasses.
This is an interesting map to play around with. It allows you to see how many 15-minute neighborhoods and cities there are around the world. And it works by calculating the average time it takes to walk or bike to the closest 20 points of interest in 10,000 cities. These points include all of the usual suspects like places of work, schools, healthcare institutions, grocery stores, and so on. A blue cell indicates an average walk time < 15 minutes, and a red cell indicates an average walk time > 15 minutes. The darker the color, the shorter or longer the average time in minutes.
By this measure, it's hard to beat many/most European cities. Here are Paris and Barcelona:
The city propers are completely blue, and you have to go pretty far out (or up into mountains) to find areas that don't have 15-minute conveniences.
Toronto has a strong core and isn't terrible overall, but expectedly, we aren't as uniform and as deep blue as Paris and Barcelona:
Where things get really interesting, though, is when you look at cities like Dallas and Houston:
It's clear where these cities stand on walkability.
This is one example of how AR (augmented reality) can be used in a large retail store:
https://twitter.com/AndrewHartAR/status/1722307291888656764?s=20
In this particular case, it's an example of a customer being guided to a particular screw in a large hardware store.
The company, which is called Hyper, is also working to expand their product to other physical locations, such as malls, campuses, airports, and hospitals. And broadly speaking, their mission is to "build the digital layer for the physical world."
Where they have started seems to make a lot of sense. If I'm in a large hardware store and I'm trying to find a very specific product, I'd be more than happy to pull out my phone and have it guide me there.
I could also see myself pulling out my phone if I were standing in Yosemite National Park and I wanted to know all of the important points-of-interest. So from these perspectives, AR seems obviously useful.
But these are discrete moments in time. I'm looking for something right now, help me. And this is arguably how we will all start regularly using AR -- with our phones for brief periods of time.
But at some point, it is likely to become more seamless and constant. Maybe that sounds far fetched (or completely undesirable). But I'm still hoping that this becomes possible with a cool pair of sunglasses.
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