Mobile Augmented Reality

Ship Finder is an app that offers real time ship movements on the iPhone and iPod. When you launch the app you are shown a map view with markers indicating ships. Clicking on any of the markers allows you to obtain more information including the name, picture, destination, ETA, speed and more. We found Ship Finder worked great and if this type of nautical information is important to you, don’t hesitate to pick this one up.

App Store Link: Ship Finder ($4.99)

Want to know what ships are in the harbour? Live by the sea and want information on the boats going by? Or maybe you are just interested in shipping, ports and vessels around the world? Ship Finder will do this and more!

Ship Finder is a great app that provides real time information on ships across the globe. It’s easy to use and is fully integrated into Google Maps. It’s easy to switch between map views and details and even pulls in photos of most ships.

Real Typing with Augmented Reality is an app that is designed to allow you to see what is happening in front of you while you type a message on the iPhone. It brings up the camera and your words appear transparently over the camera’s display. You can import text from the clipboard, change the camera settings, take a picture and reset your typing. In our tests we found the app to work incredibly well and offered real functionality. Don’t hesitate to pick this one up if you are a heavy texter or emailer.

App Store Link: Real Typing with Augmented Reality ($1.99)

Real Typing is a text editor to enable you to watch things in front you while typing. Real Typing will actually let you SEE the view beyond your phone when typing, so you will never need to take your eyes off the screen!!!

Have you ever hit a tree while you were typing a short message? Have you ever missed an exciting scene of a movie while you had to reply to an email?

Real Typing can solve all these problems and make life easier! Real Typing can be used with any of your apps, like SMS, Mail, Safari, Twitter clients, Facebook etc.

Ghost Capture is an augmented reality app that lets you add realistic ghosts to your photos.  When you launch the app you are able to choose the photo you want to use. You can get a photo from your camera roll, or take one within the app. Then you can select the ghosts you would like to include. You can pinch to resize the ghost and adjust the transparency to achieve a realistic look. You can then save your photo, email it to friends, or submit it to the online gallery. The app worked great and is the best for adding ghost effects to your photos for easy sharing with friends.

Create realistic paranormal photo manipulations right on your iPhone and iPod Touch**!

With Ghost Capture, you can manipulate any photo from your iPhone photo album. After choosing an image, (or taking a new photo directly through Ghost Capture) select a ghost to superimpose onto the photo. Choose from creepy Victorian children, faceless torsos, Civil War soldiers, ghostly orbs, and more. After placing the ghost, slip the horizontal, adjust the size, rotation, and transparency to achieve the optimum effect. Don’t like the way your ghost is turning out? Hit the reset button to put it back in the center of the screen for you to start over or even select a different ghost! Save and email your creation to your friends, and let them judge for themselves!

App Store Link: Ghost Capture ($.99)

Nude X is the latest in a long line of apps claiming to allow you to ’see you friends naked!’ Unfortunately this doesn’t quite deliver and pales in comparison to Nude It, another app we’ve reviewed. In Nude X, rather than using face detection technology to overlay the ‘nude’ model on top of your subject, this app makes you resize and correctly place the model.

Already a huge success, thanks to you! Nude X shows your friends naked!
Augmented reality is wonderful… You can now transform your iPhone into a nude scanner thanks to this exceptional technology.

It is very simple to use!
Launch the application and point your iPhone towards your victim. Touch the button to see your victim nude using your iPhone’s camera.

Pandemica is a new augmented reality shooter from XMG Studio Inc. The game offers both single player and multiplayer modes and includes various enemies and weapon power-ups. Once you start the game you are shown instructions explaining that you should hold the device upright and tap the screen to shoot your weapon. The enemies instantly start coming from the horizon, and generally in front of you so you don’t wind up spinning in circles. As you progress you unlock better weapons and the missions get harder. The game also includes OpenFeint integration with achievements. Multi-player  mode is where there game really shines as you get to battle the enemy aliens with another friend. This game is very polished and looks great and plays great. We feel that it is well worth the $1.99 it is currently priced at in the App Store.

If you are a 3GS user this is an App you want – to show off the unique capabilities of this device.

Pandemica is XMG Studio’s 1st generation AR game (wait until you see what we have next) and an intense, arcade-style shooter. There are 3 single-player game modes (Mission, Endless, and Time Attack) and two multiplayer modes (maximizing either points or cooperating on defence against the alien virus).

Pandemica transforms your device into a sub-field bio-scanner that can see the invisible alien organisms that are all around you. Your mission is to eliminate the enemy before they get you — and you get the goo. Unlock weapons such as missiles, BEP (Bio-Electric Pulse), and the BFB (Boson Field Bomb) to complement your trusty standard-issue laser.

CUTTING-EDGE GAMEPLAY
· Amazing augmented reality gameplay that blends the Pandemica game world with the real world around you
· Slick, rich looking graphics that create an amazing, immersive gaming experience
· Multiplayer mode is playable over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
· Leaderboard to track highest single player or team scores

App Store Link: Pandemica ($1.99)

GeoChaser is a new augmented reality app that will have you playing a first person shooter in the great outdoors.  When you first launch the app you are presented with three options: Create game, join game, and statistics. To start a game with friends is as simple as it gets. When you are in a game you can hold the device upright for augmented reality mode, and flat for map mode. The transition between the two is quick and perfect. Overall we felt it was a great implementation of a fun idea and well worth the $2.99.

GeoChaser is the first multiplayer first person shooter played in the real world.  Go geochasing friends and strangers with your iPhone. Be fast, be quick. Everyone could be an enemy. And always remember that every chaser will also get chased.  Play it inconspicuous like an agent, hidden like a ninja or offensive like a pirate.
GeoChaser uses GPS to locate you and your opponents. Your positions are displayed on a map. Switch to combat mode when you are close to an enemy and shoot a picture with the camera. The fastest shooter is the winner.
Augmented Reality helps you locate your opponents.  Tell your iPhone friends and go geochasing. There can be only one winner and the world is your playground.

App Store Link: GeoChaser $2.99

The first thing we want to say about the new app Sky Seige from Simbiotics Ltd is “Wow!” Right off the bat the App Store description hints at the fact that you will “Stand up and fight! Literally!!” and that the battle will be “360 degrees in every direction!” The is undeniably true as the action is fast and frantic, and will have you spinning.

When you first launch the app you are presented with  ‘Go’,  ‘Settings’ and  ‘Guide’ buttons. Inside the settings you can choose your difficulty level and filtering. The guide explains how to play the game, and what the various on-screen elements indicate such as the weapon selector, ammunition levels, zooming etc. After pressing the  go button your rocket launcher comes up in  first person shooter style and as you turn your iPhone around, you can see inside the virtual world which consists of a grassy floor and blue cloudy sky. The enemies including helicopters and blimps start flying at you from every angle and it is your job to shoot them down. It’s actually quite thrilling as the helicopters buzz past you with guns blazing as you spin around to shoot them with a rocket! You can choose ‘augmented reality’ mode and the camera view is used as the background making for quite an immersive gaming experience! There is much to this game that we haven’t covered such as ammo crates at your feet for reloading and much more. During our review we found Sky Seige to be an insanely fun augmented reality experience and it comes with our highest recommendation. Don’t hesitate to pick this one up today.

App Store Link: Sky Seige $4.99