Augmented Reality

Minggu, 17 Maret 2013

Best Augmented Reality Apps

Although augmented reality sounds a lot like a wild futuristic concept, the technology has actually been around for quite some time now, and software developers have come up with all kinds of creative uses for it. Agumented reality apps run the gamut from interactive map overlays to massive multiplayer king of the hill games, and we’ve done our best to assemble a list of the best ones out there. Read on to find out our top picks!

Wikitude World Browser

Wikitude World Browser is widely regarded as the king of all augmented reality browsers. As you travel around any given area, WWB will provide you with just about any geographically-relevant information you need — Wikipedia articles for landmarks, ATM locations, Youtube videos, Tweets, Foursquare locations, and whole lot more. It’s like an AR Swiss army knife, and the best part is it’s completely free.

WorkSnug

WorkSnug is one of those apps that comes in handy often enough to earn a spot on my phone’s homescreen. Essentially, its an AR app that sniffs out free WiFi near you and helps you navigate to suitable workplaces in whatever city you happen to reside in. It’s even got a decibel meter that assesses the general noise level of locations tagged by users, so you can know beforehand if you’ll need headphones.

AugMeasure

The AugMeasure app is a handy little tool that can measure short distances with just your iPhone. The app displays distances on screen by using your iPhone’s camera and overlaying the measurements on screen with live pictures from the phones camera. The picture will adjust in real time to measure wherever’s in front of your camera. It comes in handy more than you’d think, especially since most of us don’t walk around with a ruler in our pocket.

Acrossair Nearest Tube App

One of the first augmented reality apps to go live in the iPhone AppStore, this handy app will pinpoint where the nearest subway or light rail stations are. Acrossair also has specific apps, similar to this one, for the Pairs Metro, Tokyo Subway, Barcelona Metro, San Francisco Transit, Madrid Metro, and New York Subways. Check out their site for more info and other useful AR apps.

Yelp Monocle

Social reviewing service Yelp provided the iPhone with its first augmented reality app, the Yelp Monocle. If you’re in a strange city and you’re looking for good eats, Monocle is your best friend. It’ll use the phone’s GPS and compass to display AR markers for nearby restaurants, bars, and other businesses in real time. Given how Yelp’s high level of success as a user-generated restaurant review service, Monocle is hands down the best app for finding a quick bite to eat.

Source :

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/best-augmented-reality-apps/

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First iPhone Augmented Reality App Appears Live in App Store

French app development shop PresseLite appears to have the first Augmented Reality (AR) supporting iPhone app live in the iTunes store, though we don't know how they did it. It's called Metro Paris Subway, and while the app isn't new, it released a new version last week that added an AR overlay that displays information about Paris businesses when you look at the city through your iPhone's camera.
Augmented Reality is the term for a long-developed set of technologies that place layers of information on top of a view of the real world. Developers and AR-watchers have believed that no AR apps would be able to go live in the iTunes App Store until the next version of the iPhone OS is released in Fall. No one we've talked to has seen any others, but this one is for sale for 99 cents. It's possible that it was allowed in by mistake, or that it's a partial implementation of AR, but we're waiting to hear back from the developers for more details.
We discovered a video of the app via Swedish blogger Magnus Aldemark. Augmented Reality is being tracked far more closely outside of the United States than within it, especially in Europe, Korea and Japan.
The AR capabilities only work on the new iPhone 3Gs; both GPS and a compass are used to determine location and direction being pointed at.