i hope this app will be nice and disruptive, and we'll be looking carefully at what people expect and how they actually use it. it's a platform, and we're really excited about the directions it opens up.
thanks for the link, cheers!
Or anyone for that matter. Make a business, be king of the world. You deserve it.
With such a product, you should perhaps brand yourself more on your product than your company name. :)
Just throwing it out there.
In this case someone has already registered wordlensapp.com. We can only hope it's the Quest Visual people.
Different registrar, different DNS and the obvious spam landing page. sigh
There are many trends for using domains similar to what you would desire: get<product> being the best, and <product>app being one of the other choices.
I have very bad experiences with finding an app's site, if it models <product>app. Maybe it's just bad SEO on their part, but I imagine that it'd be an awful hassle for any normal user who don't know the conventions.
Then it struck me that <use>product would be a very interesting domain that makes much more sense than <product>app. It also mirrors the imperative <get>, although it may not be as popular and known to users - yet.
I think it's a shame they didn't secure a regular <product>.com domain for such a great product - but, on the other hand, I'm sure all the press will forgive them (hell, they're trending on Twitter, and 80% of my social media digest today was about the bloody thing).
I've registered usewordlens.com, usewordlens.net, and usewordlens.org and will be happy to hand it over or point it to a domain of their choice (if someone tells me how the hell to do it using name.com, because I'm a complete idiot in that regard. I guess I have to mess with some DNS).
otaviogood or johndeweese, if you're reading this, my email is in my profile.
Agree I can't read it, pretty simple request.
Aside from that, and as a Spanish native speaker, the translated text sounds really weird to me. Even without knowing English I would be able to understand the translated text (at least the example that you gave) but it can be improved. But this is the only con that I see to your application. Probably you're already working on that, but I thought that you might like this input.
Great idea!!
The first card says "welcome to the future" which I thought was perfect :)
This could just be a case of needing to optimize and train their recognizer to deal with a much larger set of possible characters, or it could require implementing kanji-specific OCR techniques like attempting to decompose the characters into their constituent strokes, and recognize based on classification of those strokes (orientation, position, direction).
On the other hand, an English to Chinese translator might be more doable, and might also be more commercially profitable.
An app that converted from characters to pinyin (a much easier problem) would be gold to someone trying to learn mandarin. I'd easily pay $50 for something with that functionality without it even making an attempt at the english. It's a much smaller market than those trying to understand chinese signs on a vacation, but it's one with a much larger stake and interest in the result.
Here's a video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7VTo0656Rc
Of course, guessing the correct word when performing word-for-word translation of hanzi is almost impossible, so even the extremely primitive product I'm thinking of is very difficult.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/16/world-lens-translates-words...