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OBOTO Is A Smart, Augmented Reality Pet Robot For iPhone Users

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Do you like those cute and interesting virtual talking pets for mobile devices? Forget Talking Tom Cat and Candy Flick, because the mighty OGGIE can annihilate all these with a single blast from its augmented reality laser. OBOTO is an iOS app that lets you have your very own pet robot that's capable of dancing, responding to external stimuli, and also going on its mean streak, which sometimes induces it to shoot laser beams at everything that comes in its path, and splat black ink onto your iPhone’s screen. Sounds a lot like Talking Tom Cat, doesn't it? The biggest positive OBOTO enjoys over other entertainment apps of this kinds is that it does everything in the real environment around its users. The app makes use of augmented reality to let you place the robot on top of any object in the vicinity. You can then capture OGGIE’s antics in the form of videos and photos. Read More

AR-MAPS For iPhone Combines Augmented Reality With Apple & Google Maps

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Windows Phone 8 is off to a shaky start, but one of the points that can make the Lumia series a hit is its navigational edge over iOS. Not only does WP8 sport Nokia’s own transport and map apps, there is also the rather new LiveSight technology, which was used by the initially Nokia-exclusive City Lens. City Lens adds augmented reality to normal maps, making it a lot easier to find places in an unfamiliar environment. While there can be no denying the fact that Google Maps have far more detailed map data than any competing service, even they lack the convenience and magic of LiveSight. Well, not anymore. Thanks to AR-MAPS, you can now have augmented reality for maps on your iPhone. The app works with both Apple and Google Maps, and offers deep integration with Foursquare. Read More

Create Photo Cutouts & Use Them As Augmented Reality Effects With PhotoWithMe For iPhone

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Photo stitching and merging two images together might be an easy task for the Photoshop savvy, but most common folk spend hours trying to get the combination right. How many times have you wished that you could change the background of your photo, or add someone to a group shot? While there are many comprehensive photo editors available for iOS, PhotoWithMe offers a completely new take on adding details and objects to your photos. The app makes use of augmented reality to overlay any cutout (labeled seed) on the scene in front of you. You can create your own augmented reality effects, or employ any of the ones shared by other users. Read More

Linxy: Point Your iPhone At A Printed Word To Learn Its Definition

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Most people who are into reading eBooks on their iOS devices are sure to appreciate the Define feature offered by Apple. It is impossible to have an infinite vocabulary, and every once in a while, we all need to refer to a dictionary. While iOS’s own dictionary has got you covered when it comes to words in the virtual world, you still need to manually type in everything if you come across an unfamiliar word in real life. Although paper books might not be as popular as they once were, a lot of people still read them, and even if you don’t, we live in a world where we are surrounded by text and alphabets. That’s what makes Linxy such a useful app. Thanks to the Linxy app, you can use your phone as an efficient dictionary for words you read anywhere in your surroundings. The app is based on augmented reality, and you don’t have to do anything other than pointing your iPhone to a word to view its definition and Wikipedia entry. Not only that, you can use Linxy even if you don’t have internet access! Read More

Wikitude: Discover Places & People Near You In Augmented Reality [WP7]

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Augmented reality is quite a promising field of app development for all smartphone platforms. There is, undoubtedly, a lot of room for improvement when it comes to Windows Phone 7 apps that deal with AR, but recently, some pretty good AR browsers have started making their way into the WP7 Marketplace. We covered Nokia’s City Lens (review) a while back, but that is not the first, or even the best, augmented realty browser out there for Mango phones. That honor falls to Wikitude, an app that has been around in the Marketplace for quite some time, but has become even more awesome thanks to a few really good updates. It is not focused on just letting users discover interesting places near them; you can even use it to find people that have recently tweeted in your vicinity. Read on for a complete list of features offered by this comprehensive Mango app. Read More

The Caddie + For Nokia Lumia: View Stats Of Fellow Golfers In Augmented Reality!

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Golf might appear to be a rather simple game if you are watching it on TV, but if you've ever been to the greens yourself, you probably know that it isn't as simple as hitting the ball with the club. Plus, you have to find some golfing buddies, someone has to keep the scores, and, if the course is unfamiliar to you, finding your way across all 18 holes can be a real headache. This is the reason there are many apps in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace that can help you with all this, and leave you free to concentrate on your game. The best among such WP7 apps is The Caddie +, and although the app has been around for quite a while for Mango phones, a Lumia version of the app has recently been released. The Nokia app is pretty similar to the original one, but it has some really fantastic augmented reality features that make it a cut above the rest. With the app’s Golfscope feature, you just have to point your device at anyone playing against you, and the app with display their stats and score right on your screen! Intrigued? Read of past the jump for more. Read More

Masatu For Android & iOS: Create Photo Time Capsules At A Location & View In Augmented Reality

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Fresh to the Google Play Store and iOS App Store, Masatu is an innovative and fun-filled social photo-sharing app based on the concept of sharing location-based time capsules. A time capsule created via Masatu can be filled with photos as well as personal messages, and shared publicly, privately or just with selected friends. You can create multiple time capsules, and the content modification privileges of each individual one can be altered to allow or disallow anyone to add their own personal messages or photos to it. In either case, all the content within a capsule can be opened by the selected audience only at the time specified by the creator. Once a time capsule is unlocked, users can view the hidden content in a simple list, or enjoy shared moments through an interactive augmented reality view, provided they are present at the location of sharing at that very instance. Read More

KLIK For iPhone Automatically Tags Your Facebook Friends In Photos

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Most of us have been on some trip or gathering where literally hundreds of photos were taken by friends and then uploaded to Facebook, the most popular social network. If you were a part of some large group in an event, it can get tedious trying to tag everyone. KLIK by Face.com takes this burden off your shoulders and does all the tagging automatically through facial recognition. The best feature that can be programmed into an artificially intelligent being is the ability to learn with time, and that’s exactly what KLIK has on offer. If it doesn’t recognize the face automatically, you can enter the Learn mode of the app and teach the app yourself. The app has got some pretty good photo effects as well, and you can learn all about them by heading past the break. Read More

City Lens For Lumia WP7: Identify Places Near You & View Info In Augmented Reality

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When Windows Phone 7 was bumped to Mango, one feature that came across as a good addition to the OS was the search menu’s Local Scout. If you don’t already know, Local Scout provides users with search results that are related to their current location. It is a good way of discovering interesting and useful places near you. As attractive as the official feature might sound, it does have a few shortcomings, and it does not work outside the US and UK. Maybe that’s why Nokia has decided to launch City Lens for Lumia WP7 devices. The app has been around on Symbian phones for quite a while, but you won’t guess that by the Mango version’s polished Metro interface. City Lens is basically an augmented reality browser that allows users to discover places near them. Many other apps can do that, but the best thing about this Nokia app is the fact that you can use it to point your device at any place in real life, and it will give you all the information about it on your phone’s screen! Read More

Star Rover: Augmented Reality App For Star Gazing On Your iPad

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There are some truly beautiful iPad apps on the iTunes App Store, which keep reminding you why you spent $500 on the tablet. When it comes to beauty, one of the few words that are sure to come to your mind (after Megan Fox, of course) are “stars”, “sky” and “moon”. The heavens have always held a certain charm for human beings. Star Rover is an iPad app that will complement your stargazing experience. This app, based on augmented reality, lets its users point their iPad to the heavens, and identifies whatever constellation, star or planet they are looking at. The concept behind Star Rover might not be a completely new one, but it is certainly among the most beautiful iPad-optimized stargazing apps. Read More

Find The RGB Value Of Any Object With Augmented Colors [WP7]

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Being a relatively new field of technology, augmented reality hasn’t got a lot of apps on any platform, let alone one like Windows Phone 7, whose app collection is not as large as iOS and Android. The apps that do feature Augmented Reality are mostly just for fun, and serve no serious and useful purpose. So, it is always nice to see an AR app that actually does something useful, no matter how small or insignificant. Augmented Colors is a rather simple app, but the functionality it offers is very useful if you use photo editing tools, or if you like to have an exact knowledge of everything that interests you. Using the app, you can point your WP7’s camera at any object, and find out the RGB and hex value of its color. The user doesn't have to do anything, the app will just take a moment to scan the target object, and tell you the colour's exact name straight away. Read More

Eye Spy: Find Places Of Interest With Augmented Reality View [WP7]

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Even a budding platform like Windows Phone 7 has got a nice collection of apps which are focused on letting their users discover places near them, without having to gaze at a map for too long. We have covered quite a few such apps ourselves, like Poynt, Next2Me and From Here. Eye Spy is a new addition to the list of place-discovery apps, and it comes with the distinguishing feature of having an augmented reality view of many places it finds. Read past the break to find more about this useful app. Read More