The original aim of this investigation was to display virtual images of books on a wall and to be able to call up the full text of any one of them to read. The two ends of this objective \u2013 display of a virtual bookshelf, and the ability to read the full text of any of the books \u2013 have been achieved. However, the integration of the two ends is, as yet, a manual process requiring the user to choose a title from the virtual display, to open up the iPad SideBooks application, and to find and open the required title.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve briefly thought about a variety of ways that this process might be automated. The original notion was to use e-Paper and to be able to touch the image of a book spine to bring up the full text on a separate screen. In the absence of e-Paper, I toyed with the notion of using Image recognition via an iPhone App, but I couldn\u2019t find an App that would use the text recognised to open up another application. I then started thinking about voice recognition and tried out the Apple Siri voice recognition facility on the iPad. Frustratingly, although it will very effectively open up the Sidebooks application just by the user saying \u201cSideBooks\u201d, Siri is not yet able to search for and open up files within applications. This was confirmed to me by an Apple Chat \u00a0support person \u2013 though he did advise me that I should inform Apple of my requirement via a Feedback form, which I duly did.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s as far as I\u2019ve got. Voice recognition does seem to be the most promising approach \u2013 and I guess it\u2019s quite possible that Apple may enhance Siri to call up files, sometime in the future. In the meantime, I expect I\u2019ll be able to just about get by in manual mode!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The original aim of this investigation was to display virtual images of books on a wall and to be able to call up the full text of any one of them to read. The two ends of this objective \u2013 … Continue reading