See more with Wikitude

Nowadays, app. stores are filled with applications allowing you to book best price hotel or to consult a list of recommended restaurants near you. However the team of Wikitude just made it better with their location-based augmented reality application. First launched in 2008 the first version of this application was the first publicly available application that used a location-based approach to augmented reality. Since then Wikitude was voted “Best Augmented Reality browser” from the years 2009 to 2012.

How does it works:

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The Wikitude application lets you visualize in an existing and immersive way the world around you by providing you with live content. It uses geo-localization and augmented reality to display all these information’s on your camera image as opposed to other similar application that use conventional map, which provides an abstract view from above. Easy to use, you simply have to open the application and then select the content you want to appear on your camera while you are filming the environment around you.

What information can you get from Wikitude:

Wikitude gets information from several databases, calling up points of interest from hotel recommendations to tweets to local reviews on restaurants, activities or local places to visit and everything in between. You can narrow down your search to categories such as accommodation, travel and sights. Moreover, Wikitude application has partnership with several travelling services such has TripAdvisor, Yelp, Hotels.com and Foursquare making it rich on relevant and reliable content. Also, an interesting feature about this application is that it displays Wikipedia articles when simply filming important monuments like the Eifel Tower, or the London Bridge.

We think that Wikitude is on the good path to become a must have application for travelers. It really gives its user an immersive experience making it an exiting application to use. Moreover the content, which is available trough Wikitude, is all a traveler needs to really discover and learn more about the environment around him. Also, we think that Wikitude should implement, in its next version, a booking platform for hotels directly on the app instead of just offering the information and rates. Another recommendations that could give a huge competitive advantage to Wikitude would be to affiliate with museums so that people could get interactive content with augmented reality while visiting the museum.

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- Ludovic Sacier & Jessica Gourdji

References:

 http://www.wikitude.com/app/

http://en.wikipedia.org

http://www.augmentedrealitytrends.com/ar-app/augmented-reality-app-wikitude-your-third-eye-to-browse-the-surroundings.htmlg/wiki/Wikitude

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/augmented-reality-map-apps-wikitude-v-acrossair-20140306-3480j.html

http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/10/23/wikitude-android-app-with-augmented-reality-mind-blowing/