"The world around me" - navigation on urban subjects with augmented reality
Android Ios / / December 19, 2019
Just turn on your smartphone camera, launch the app and find out what is nearby.
"The world around me" - is a simple and convenient service that helps quickly navigate in an unfamiliar place and accurately determine the direction of further movement. To use it to find a place in the city, simply select the desired profile and raise smartphone to eye level.
The application works like a radar, is superimposed over the images from the camera indexes the selected category. It can be restaurants, Cafes, ATMs, parks, pharmacies, subway stations, hotels, shops and much more.
Service using GPS and an accelerometer device that allows real-time to change the information on the screen depending on where you are pointing your smartphone.
Pointer space, in addition to the title, shows the distance to the object and its evaluation. When you press the open background information with the exact address, contacts, photos, reviews and a marker on the map. All these data are automatically loaded from the database Google Maps.
Straight from the index menu, you can build route navigation, go to the site and call if the phone is specified. There is also a simple search places by name.
In addition to viewing objects through a smartphone camera available display their list or on a map. In the application menu after login, you can add, and their places will be visible only to you. This will allow to keep some important objects, with their addresses, to later go back there again.
In application settings, you can adjust the radius of places, ranging from 100 meters and ending 50 km. There is present restriction on the number of results to, for example, in the center of the whole screen was not crowded pointers.
Appendix "The world around me" advertising is available for smartphones made free. Upgrade to the Pro-version without banners will cost 99 rubles.
see also
- How to choose a good tourist navigator →
- 7 mobile applications, which will be useful for the study of new cities →
- Interactive map shows in which country you can go without a visa →