Thursday, January 13, 2011

Inventing My Own ipad Application for Maxis

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I had aways wondering, it will be super cool if the 3d hologram interface technology ever used commonly in real life. In case some of you do not know what is this technology, this tech is used widely in Iron Man Show. Do those 3D images of Iron Man suit that are projected on the wide screen in Tony Stark's lab sound familiar?

I came across with this "Inventing My Own ipad Application for Maxis" by nuffnang coincidently and i think it is very interesting indeed and decided to take part because the prizes are too tempting! A 64GB ipad 3G + Maxis wifi modem for the 1st prize and 32GB ipad 3G + Maxis wifi modem for 2nd prize!!!!!!!!. And so, while i was waiting around an hour for my haircut, i tried to think what kind of idea i could use to create an unique ipad application and this 3d hologram interface idea just popped up in brain. 

Last time during secondary school, we as the students have to build something out of woods and other materials during Kemahiran Hidup class as homework. To build a simple woodcraft, we need to draw some 2D plans with all the details from every angle. During that time, i was concern with one thing : What if there were something such as measurements and wood size that i accidentally missed out in the plans? Won't the woodcraft that i am going to build has flaws? Of course this problem could not be solved during that time and fortunately my homework turned out just fine. I mean this flaw can be ignored for my case because it is just a simple homework anyway, but how about those complicated models,for example transformer, generators,building and etc? Can we afford to make mistakes in these complicated construction?

example of 2D plans from different angles

The application that i had thought of is an application that can projects a 3D model based on those drawn 2D plans and i named it i-Hologram Interface DIY aka i-HIDIY . So what the ipad users need to do is to transfer those complete 2D plans into their ipad and use the application. This application will combines these plans and projects the blue 3D model on the ipad screen, just like the picture below: 
 The app can even highlight the angles and measurements that had been accidentally missed out in the plans with different colour that contrasts with the original 3D model light colour, for example red to complete the model. If the users are satisfied with the model, i-HIDIY is able to converts the final model into plans with better accuracy in terms of measurements,size and others that are related to the model construction. It will helps the users to minimise possible errors during the construction in for real.Meanwhile, ipad users can enlarge and revert back the model by using both index fingers to pull outwards and inwards as well.

In my opinion, if this application ever invented, it will helps out many people from different categories like students and white collars and at the same time, ipad sales will greatly increases, don't you think so?

For university students that took engineering course, they are required to build many things that are related to their course, for example, building construction for civil engineering, machinery for mechanical engineering and etc. This application will does a great favor for them to prevent unnecessary mistakes and at the same time, save time and reduces material wastage.

How about corporate field? This application will be able to help those white collars during their work and presentation. People are more interested with images rather than words. Now imagine yourself holding yr ipad with your presentation materials in the meeting room, when you begin your presentation, you used this application to project the work that you had work hard in order to convince the rest of the people in the room. It is like killing 2 birds with 1 stone.

Btw sorry for lack of pictures for my idea because i am not that good with IT stuff XD


Last but not least, Ipad is now available through Maxis now!!!!!! hurry people,go grab it!!!!XD For more info, please click here
The information below is part of the Maxis plan, have a look yea.

MAXIS IPAD PLANS:
Maxis now offers Data Plans exclusive to iPad, tailor made to suit your needs! Just sign up for any of Maxis’ great data plans below and experience online entertainment on the ego. All plans come with Micro-SIM card.

1 comment:

michleong said...

Banyak technical. But a good one! Good luck! Win already dont forget friend ah. hehe