It wasn’t expected to happen until Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) released the iPhone OS 3.1 microcode update, but it seems at least one iPhone app developer has managed to push through an app-update that enables augmented reality on the iPhone. We’ve seen plenteousness of AR apps being demonstrated on the iPhone in the past tense, but they wealthy person yet to shuffling it to the AppStore. With the elision of the Metro Paris Subway iPhone app. According to the NYT Metro French capital Subway is the first iPhone app to bring augmented world to the iPhone!
What is augmented world? AR is kind of like your entropy windowpane to the real number world. It deeds by overlaying an entropy bed on big top of a live camera view of the earthly concern. By combining information from GPS and digital range computer hardware, augmented reality apps tin can determine your geo-location and the direction that you’re facing. With that information, apps tin can overlayer all sorts of useful tags right field onto real number-earthly concern objects (tube stations, constellations, Twitter users, etc.).
Metro French capital Subway was recently endowed with AR features, thanks to a recent update through the AppStore. It’s not open why Apple net ball this particular AR lineament into the AppStore while presumably keeping others on ice until iPhone OS 3.1 is released (which we’re hearing will happen around Labor Department Clarence Day). But, with the power to bowling pin-breaker point tube stations and nearby businesses (like Pizza Hut, Starbucks, KFC, C. H. Best Western and, funny enough, Subway) through the iPhone 3GS’s camera finder, we’re not going to looking at a giving Equus caballus in the oral fissure.
The video shows you what you tin can do with Metro Paris Subway on the iPhone 3GS. The video recording is in French, and you’ll obviously have to be in Paris to put this app to goodness use.
We tin can’t wait to start exploitation AR iPhone apps en masse! You know, like Android users have been able to do for months now.
Metro French capital Subway $0.99 (iTunes link)
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