iPhone News: 1st Augmented Reality App Finds London Underground
One of the reasons to buy the new iPhone 3GS and NOT to choose for the proven iPhone 3G is that the GS has a Digital Compass onboard. This piece of hardware makes the iPhone GS aware to which direction your iPhone 3GS is pointing to, even when you stand still. This enables develoers with the new OS 3.0 and SDK 3.0 to create a new sort of applications which can categorized as Augmented Reality apps. In a post earlier this year we reported about Augmented Reality apps.
Acrossair, the makers of the TVGuide.co.uk iPhone app bring you Nearest Tube one of the first augmented reality apps to go live in the iPhone AppStore. Forget boring 2D tube maps! Try this amazingnew application that tells Londoners where their nearest tube station is via their iPhones video function.[watch demo stream]
When you load the app, holding it flat, all 13 lines of the London underground are displayed in coloured arrows. By tilting the phone upwards, you will see the nearest stations: what direction they are in relation to your location, how many kilometres and miles away they are and what tube lines they are on. If you continue to tilt the phone upwards, you will see stations further away, as stacked icons. Only available to Apple iPhone 3GS users.
Release: App is submitted and launches as soon as Apple approves it!
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