You’re augmenting my what!? Or, map-less navigation
Augmented Reality is kind of a buzz phrase these days and now it’s working it’s way into real-time navigation.
The guys over at androidguys.comhave uncovered an interesting new Wiki project, Wikitude Drive. Hopefully, popping up soon on the market, the app takes turn-by-turn navigation and pairs it with an Augmented Reality interface and loses the maps.
Check the video for a preview:
According to W.Drive’s website, “the first fully functional mobile AR navigation system available for the Android platform. Wikitude Drive was developed by the Mobilizy Research & Development group in Salzburg, Austria, to satisfy the curiosity of the developers to see if it was feasible to combine real-time navigation with mobile augmented reality. The result of this quest is Wikitude Drive, a fully-functional, light weight navigational system which overlays point-to-point directions on a camera-view, without the need for maps.”
In other words, the App uses the camera and viewscreen to create a Heads-up Display over which it lays directions for point-to-point, turn-by-turn navigation. Within the app itself you won’t be referencing any maps, just directions overlayed on the real world, in real-time.
The app will feature:
(a mobile internet connection is necessary to access data while in motion)
Social navigational features will be implemented in future releases
R. John Klimut
