Verizon Wireless has recently released a new and unique feature through their V Cast Music service. Called V Cast Song ID, this new service supposedly allows users to use their cell phone to id any song (probably limited to what V Cast sells through their service) by recording it with their cell phone, which then identifies it and starts a download.
I'm guessing the software tries to identify key portions of songs, but the question is, how exactly? Anyone have any ideas on this? When I see this, it's almost like looking at the demo system with games that have become mainstay, except this time, it's more passive and spontaneous.
Something else that is similar are those DS Download stations that you see floating around random game stores and Best Buys, however, I'd really like to see something more similar for gaming. Perhaps the next generation of portable game systems would allow users to start digital downloads of games that players might see at a friends house or at a game store.
Imagine, sitting at a buddies place and he's playing a cool new game that you've never seen before, but after playing it for a bit, you're convinced you really like it. You turn on your Sony Playstation Portable Hyper Xtreme Gaming Unit V2.0 and login to your personal PSPHXGUV2.0 (TM) website, where you select the game and start a digital download on your Playstation 4 (You play it with your mind!). By the time you get home, your game is downloaded and ready to play. Cool, very cool. Something even better would be if the game system itself was able to send out some sort of Bluetooth ID to the portable system to automatically send the player to a website to start downloading on the home console.
Regardless, it's a really cool feature, and I don't believe I've seen this kind of feature in Asia yet, kudos to Verizon for taking this initiative.
Official Verizon V CAST Music Page
One of the V CAST Song ID commercials, via D.H.A.D.M.