Jan Zdarsa Augmented reality apps are slowly multiplying on the Appstore. Today I will draw your attention to the well-known application Wikitude, which after the Android platform has also arrived on the iPhone 3GS. Her greatest asset? It's completely free, so everyone can try augmented reality on their iPhone 3GS.
I already mentioned Wikitude in one from earlier articles on augmented reality. Augmented reality adds man-made objects to the camera image, in the case of Wikitude these are Wikipedia, Wikitude.me and Qype tags with labels of what they are. After clicking on the mark, you will see a box with additional information about the given place.
In Wikitude, you can set how far away you want the information to be displayed. You can thus set, for example, 1km and wander around Prague looking for monuments - you will also have it with a guide. There is also a built-in browser to display the complete article from Wikipedia. Here, however, it would be appropriate to format the content for the iPhone and not to display the classic Wikipedia page.
Of course, iPhone 3G owners can't try the app because it lacks a compass for orientation in space. Wikitude is definitely an interesting venture that is worth at least trying. Since the application is free, I definitely recommend it to everyone.
Too bad there is no compass in the iPhone 3G. And I won't be buying an iPhone 3GS because of it. But otherwise a good app.
Thanks a lot, great stuff. Surprisingly, there are not only the main monuments, but also the local church. Do you think you could please write down in a post all the applications with augmented reality that you found? I'm not very good at searching... apart from my aunt, I only have Peak.ar, showing the surrounding mountains.
Jablickar: Thanks a lot :)
Interesting application, but there aren't many of them on the appstore yet. I'm already looking forward to the viral dog as he was in one of the videos
Great app, thanks for the info! Peak.ar is also interesting. Unfortunately, there is not much augmented reality on the Czech appstore.
These are the moments when I regret that I only have an iPod Touch. :-)
I came across another interesting use of AR on the pages of MAGNUM ice cream:
http://soutez.mymagnum.cz/ar.php
What do you think about it? I say parade :-) to make such games