We recently had the opportunity to interview the developer behind Makayama. Makayama has the created several successful games for the App Store and today we’ll be focusing on their innovative app, Mosquitoes (augmented reality game). In Mosquitoes you get to shoot the buzzing insects as you watch them fly around your surroundings via your iPhone’s [...]
hideNtweet is a free social networking augmented reality app available in the App Store. Bring back the fun of schoolyard hide and seek in the real world, playing with your friends and some very scary ghosts. Hunt and hide using an interactive map to find your way! Tag other players with your camera! Snap real [...]
The Astonishing Tribe, or TAT, has developed an incredible application that looks futuristic when you see it in action. Augmented ID allows you to point your phone at someone’s face and automatically discover information about them (Facebook, Twitter, their business card, a photograph, and whatever other information they want to share) as long as they, [...]
While not ready for commercial release, the team behind the Mt. Social augmented reality app has truly done something special. Their app uses facial and text recognition to pick faces out of a yearbook and display relevant information around them. This seems to be an excellent use of this technology and we hope to see [...]
We recently had some hands-on time with an intriguing new augmented reality application that is available in the App Store. Sun Seeker 3D Augmented Reality Viewer is an application for showing the solar path, its hour intervals, its winter and summer solstice paths, rise and set times and more. When you first launch the app [...]
“Stella Artois Le Bar Guide is a pioneering new app from Stella Artois enabling you to select and navigate to the best bars.” Unfortunately the app didn’t seem to work in our state as it brought up a message saying there was a regional legal issue. This is a real shame as the app seems [...]
Compass Plus 3D Compass is a new iPhone app that achieves a really cool implementation of displaying the compass. You can choose within the settings whether you want a hybrid, satellite, or map view, and the compass is overlayed over a google map of your location. There is also the ability to add ‘favorites’ and [...]
A video recently surfaced of a upcoming ‘promotional’ app from Ogmento. The app has been developed “…to promote the iPhone launch by Orange Telecom Israel.” You apparently print out a picture of the Orange logo, launch the app on your iPhone and aim at the printout. The image appears on your screen, hovering above the [...]
Peaks from Augmented Outdoors! Just point your iPhone at a mountain, and it will tell you all about it. Perfect for your next outdoor adventure – hiking, biking, climbing, skiing, or even a picnic in the foothills. No internet connection required – works offline! Coverage: virtually every major and minor peak in the world. Tips: [...]
Firepower is the world’s first and finest Augmented Reality iPhone app designed to turn your iPhone’s camera into a fume-spit & fire chaingun fully loaded with infinite ammo. And now with this release, Firepower comes with Particle Effects. As featured in Wired.com’s Gadget Lab Story: Firepower is “kind of like playing Doom on your iPhone [...]
