Summary: Maybe the most innovative and comprehensive travel guide ever: See the world through your phone’s camera view overlaid with Wikipedia content.
Wikitude is a mobile travel guide for the Android platform based on location-based Wikipedia and Qype content. It is a handy application for planning a trip or to find out about landmarks in your surroundings; 350,000 world-wide points of interest may be searched by GPS or by address and displayed in a list view, map view or cam view.
SEARCH POINTS OF INTEREST
Search 350,000 world-wide points of interests based on your current GPS location and address. To get started as easily as possible, two search options have been provided:
- Simple Search allows users to initiate a search just by pressing "Start Search"
- Advanced Search offers users additional search options (category, distance, and search term)
MAP, LIST, ... SEARCH RESULTS MAY BE VIEWED ON A MAP ...
Search results are displayed on a map (normal or satellite mode) as orange dots. There is a text bubble containing a short description next to the selected point of interest.
... AND CAMERA . SEARCH RESULTS MAY BE VIEWED ON THE PHONE'S CAMERA SCREEN
The truly compelling feature is the augmented reality cam view, users may hold the phone’s camera against a spectacular mountain range and see the names and heights displayed as overlay mapped with the mountains in the camera. Users may look out of an airplane window to see what is down there. Users may walk through a city like Seville, Spain, holding the phone’s camera against a building and Wikitude tells what it is.
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