An AR app aims to get hobby chefs to cook like German TV chef Steffen Henssler. The only thing that could be a bit awkward is the cable...
Turning a page in a cookbook, using the cooking app on your smartphone with your hand and then somehow chopping the vegetables correctly: this can be a challenge, especially for less experienced cooks. AR application is designed to help.
Vodafone is launching the first augmented reality cooking app on the German market - and on the brand new Light smartglasses from Nreal. The result: a completely new way of cooking. Those who cook with Giga AR have their hands free, can see their surroundings and can concentrate fully on cooking. In the new app: a variety of recipes from the world of Kitchen Stories, a digital, video-based cooking platform.
The chef as avatar in the kitchen
With the special Giga AR app, however, there are not only simple cooking videos. German TV chef Steffen Henssler guides you through the recipes in the app as a 3D avatar and explains step by step how to whip up a Kaiserschmarrn, for example.
So that you as a cook also have your hands free, you can control the menu of the app with your eyes through the glasses. For example, to start a video, it is enough to stop looking at the play button for a few seconds.
Because such an app requires a lot of computing power, it does not yet work alone. The glasses still have to be connected to a smartphone by cable. That is a disadvantage, of course. But in the long term, that will change. The super-fast 5G mobile network will also help.
The so-called "Grill den Henssler" star is convinced of the technology. Even cooking beginners could dare to try new dishes this way. "This brings cooking into the next century a bit," says Steffen Henssler. After all, cooking is a combination of technology and passion. However, it certainly takes a bit of practice to get to grips with the augmented reality glasses without any problems. But here, too, practice makes perfect.
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