Comment by 24hrmvp
3 days ago
The other side to the equation is you have a ton of CXOs that got burned on cap ex trying to use bluetooth beacons to implement effective indoor way finding solutions
You tell a CXO they can have indoor wayfinding to improve patient experience scores and there is no cap ex because there is no hardware - there is literally zero reason to turn it down.
They have nothing to lose and everything to gain
Well yes, that's kind of my point. I understood "just use a peertube instance and the web geolocation api" to mean using GPS for location. Outdoor navigation is more or less solved, but indoor doesn't benefit from GPS at all, so you need some other positioning system. I've worked on a few deployments of different systems and yeah, expensive, annoying, and usually still unreliable.
Like I said in the other comment, if you can make it good without any indoor positioning, that's a killer feature. I just...have my doubts...
The are limitations for sure without positioning. From first hand experience, humans just prefer the 3D experience because, and this is kind of sad but kind of expected, people just want to keep their heads buried into their phones instead of looking at the world around them. So if you give them a video route that can get them from the entrance of the building to where they need to be (and serve them ads $$ along the way) - the UX wins - sans positioning
But in the event of an emergency evacuation when you have no idea where that device is in the building - you are up a creek