Directed Electronics added a “Find Your Car” feature to the Viper SmartStart App that also lets you remote start your car from your phone (with a car kit and remote starter).
And it launched a contest to give away an iPad a day over a 10-day period.
A new “SmartPack” pinpoints where you left your car. It records the car’s location every time the user presses the door lock button in the Viper SmartStart app.
The app also uses augmented reality (a type of virtual reality) to help you head back to your car. “You just hold up your phone and a virtual view of your car keeps you pointed in the right direction,” said Directed Electronics president Kevin Duffy.
Existing users can update their app and new users can get the revised app through the iTunes App Store, BlackBerry App World, Android Market, or www.viper.com/smartstart.
SmartStart app users can enter a “10 Day Viper SmartStart iPad Sweepstakes.” Users may sign up through their SmartStart app.
Source: Directed Electronics
SmartStart app users can enter a “10 Day Viper SmartStart iPad Sweepstakes.” Users may sign up through their SmartStart app.
Thats a load of **** free contestes should be open to anyone not just persons that have smart phones and can run DEI’s app. This is not Fair. As installing and selling Viper products for over 18 years but not doing it now i think the way DEI did this is not a fair chance for anyone to win this. This should be on DEI’s webpage not using an app on your phone.
Directed SmartStart Update: iPad Giveway
I’d love the chance to win an IPad. I think DEI droped the ball on this one!
In fact i don’t think that its legal as not just anyone can enter the contest
without owning a smart phone.
SHAME ON YOU DEI.
The locator is not real time? So if someone takes your car with a tow truck, you can follow the augmented reality view to nowhere.