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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]