Heads Up Navigator: 3D Augmented Reality Navigation for the iPhone
If there is one hot app right now that could be used as a microcosm of just how amazingly advanced some of the iPhone apps have become, it would be this particular app. You might not believe it when you get to the bottom of this article, but everything said below is absolutely true. However, it is most likely something that needs to be seen to be believed which is fine because there is a free version of this software package available right now. You can see a video on youtube about tech and some smartphone software Augment reality with your iPhone camera
As long as you have an iPhone 3GS, you’ll be able to take full advantage of this particular iPhone app. All you need to do is rotate your camera around the world near you. As the camera view changes, you’ll begin to see 3D labels actually drop down to describe the objects that your iPhone can see through the camera. It is an augmented version of reality that automatically teaches you more about reality so that you end up knowing a lot more about the world that exists around you.
Keep your location in front of you together with the augmented reality
Although the augmented reality part of this app is really cool, it won’t do you much practical good unless you can also keep the standard navigational tools around as well. The location GPS aspect of the iPhone can still be used with this program as the sensor in your iPhone 3GS combined with its electronic compass can show you where you are on a map, where you are going and actually even tilt the map around to coincide with changes that you make in the frame of view of the iPhone’s camera. Once again, you might not actually believe that there is an app out there that can do this, but you really do have to see what this app can do in order to believe that it actually can do it.
Final Reviews and Rating
We cannot say enough good things about just how amazing this app is. While it is debatable as to whether these changes actually help the practical navigation that you need to do on your iPhone, there can be no debate that these changes have made this app into one of the best visualization programs ever created. Taking both of those points into account, we’ve given it a final score of 9.5 out of 10.
