Yelp Brings First US Augmented Reality App to iPhone Store
Tried this on my iPhone tonight. The compass reading were really off. But interesting to see that they’ve managed to sneak in an AR overlay app – for some reason I thought that required the 3.1 SDK and OS. It’s similar to the other apps. Floating information registered roughly to the compass, based on GPS location. It’s exciting to see this hitting the main stream.
Looks like the Layar folks have built a layer for the Purdue University Arboretum. Details are here on page 40. I’d be curious to see how well the system works for actually finding a specific species or identifying a species that is in front of the user. I like the use of horizontal lines to show distance. It reminds me of work show by Mark Livingston (I believe) at VR 2009. Of course, they’re also having an occlusion issue in this example but the image looks nice and green.
