Augmented GeoTravel

Augmented GeoTravel is a mobile application which uses the Augmented reality (AR) platform, a technique that overlays virtual images and its information on the real world to enhance human visual perception. Current version of Augmented GeoTravel runs on iPhone 3GS. and is used as a world travel guide. Users can get Wikipedia-based information about points of interest all over the world.

Functions

Travel guide

Augmented GeoTravel application displays information about users' surroundings in a mobile camera view.<ref name="pdf1">James, Morgan; Julie, Notato; Michelle, Floris. "Augmented Reality in iPhone Apps" (PDF). http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/morgannotatofloris/ar.pdf. Retrieved 24 May 2010.  The application calculates users' current positions by using the Global Positioning System (GPS), a compass, and an accelerometer and accesses the Wikipedia data set to provide geographic information (e.g. longitude, latitude, distance), history, and contact details of points of interest. Augmented GeoTravel overlays the virtual 3-dimensional (3D) image and its information on real-time view.

Planning the trip

Users can plan their trip by inserting the name of the city they want to visit and choosing the points of interest provided by the application by viewing the related Wikipedia articles. The application provides the option to save the articles, so an Internet connection is no more necessary.

Car finder

From version 2.0, the application includes a car finder feature, which allow the user to save the position of the parked car and to get back to it when needed, always using augmented reality technology.

Internationalization

Actually Augmented GeoTravel supports 22 languages for the Wikipedia articles. The supported languages are: English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Chinese, Norwegian, Finnish, Catalan, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Turkish, Romanian, Korean, Danish, Vietnamese, Serbian.