geoholix / heywhatsthat

This is an Augmented Reality (AR) app that aims to answer the question, "Hey, what's that?". This could be used for peaks in a mountain range, parks and other points of interest from a vista point, or skyscrapers in the downtown area of a city. A typical use case would be that a user wants to know what something is in the landscape they are looking at, so they: Get out their phone and open the app They will be presented with a view that displays the camera output They tap on the thing they would like to identify A screen overlay appears over the camera output, identifying what they tapped on.

HeyWhatsThat

This is an Augmented Reality (AR) app that aims to answer the question, "Hey, what's that?". This could be used for peaks in a mountain range, parks and other points of interest from a vista point, or skyscrapers in the downtown area of a city. A typical use case would be that a user wants to know what something is in the landscape they are looking at, so they: Get out their phone and open the app They will be presented with a view that displays the camera output They tap on the thing they would like to identify A screen overlay appears over the camera output, identifying what they tapped on.

Note that because of the iPhone technologies used, including the camera and location abilities, this app must run on a physical device.