These days if it’s not about real-time web or the next iPhone killer, then it is definitely about augmented reality.
Maybe I am not reading correctly the ☞ ReadWriteWeb post about the junaio iPhone app, but my impression is that the app is just a pure photo enhancing app. And that’s not new at all if you consider apps like Captions ( ☞ AppStore link) have existed for a while.
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I just got word that the latest version of Yelp iPhone app brings a very interesting new feature: augmented reality. Simply put, you point your camera to a location and Yelp will try to match that against their existing reviews database.
Activating this feature seems to be quite geeky or magic though:
So you shake your iPhone 3 times. That activates a feature called Monocle. A message should come up if you activated it. A blue box will come up saying “the Monocle has been activated.” It will create a button in the top right corner. Now you should be able to look at the bars, restaurants, etc. Only works on iPhone 3GS
— via Scoble
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