Twitter 360
Twitter 360
Twitter 360 App Gives Tweets Some Augmented Reality Love
BY Kit EatonTue Dec 1, 2009 at 10:50 AM
I got all excited about Twitter’s geotagging feature before, and now it’s getting a new spin that wraps in another neat technology: Augmented reality. Enter Twitter 360, an AR iPhone App that puts Tweets in a global navigational context.
It’s a product from Presselite, the company that snuck the very first AR iPhone app into the App Store under Apple’s nose before the system had been officially enabled. It has a slightly familiar look and feel to those of you who’ve used the company’s Metro map apps. Essentially it superimposes Tweets from your Twitter feed onto a view of the world through your iPhone 3G S’s camera–each Tweep responsible for the Tweets gets a digital tag in the AR view that corresponds to their approximate location (if they’ve just used a generic location in their Twitter settings) or a precise location if they’ve switched on the new geotagging feature.
[via Fast Company]
