{"id":74,"date":"2012-09-29T16:14:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2012-09-29T16:14:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:14:02","slug":"field-trip-app-hints-at-googles-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/apps\/field-trip-app-hints-at-googles-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Trip app hints at Google&#8217;s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aimed at travelers &amp; locals curious to learn more about their city, Google&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.nianticproject.scout&amp;feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5uaWFudGljcHJvamVjdC5zY291dCJd\">Field Trip app<\/a> (Android only for now) serves up content based on your specific location within that city. The app launches today in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fieldtripday.com\/\">six cities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The app, oddly for a Google product, presents a very nice visual design. There&#8217;s \u00a0even\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fieldtripper.com\/#\">sleek made-for-tv commercial<\/a>. What is Google up to with this app?<\/p>\n<p>An insightful\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/27\/a-new-google-app-gives-you-local-information-before-you-ask-for-it\/\">post on the New York Times Bit blog<\/a> predicts that the app &#8220;reveals a lot about the big directions Google wants to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note the binocular\/field glasses motif that also forms the icon for the Field Trip app.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-79\" title=\"fieldTripIcon\" src=\"http:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/fieldtripicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"124\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are those field glasses just ornamentation, clever use of graphics, \u00a0or\u00a0<strong>a hint towards Google&#8217;s future attempt to disrupt mobile computing with Google Glass &amp; wearable computing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aimed at travelers &amp; locals curious to learn more about their city, Google&#8217;s Field Trip app (Android only for now) serves up content based on your specific location within that city. The app launches today in six cities. The app, oddly for a Google product, presents a very nice visual design. There&#8217;s \u00a0even\u00a0a sleek made-for-tv [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16,17],"tags":[27],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endlesshybrids.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}