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A promising new Twitter client for the iPhone has been released that is making a compelling pitch for augmented reality. As you can see from the video, it keeps tabs on geotagged tweets and lets you see them overlaid onto the image viewed from your iPhone’s camera. If the camera is facing the ground, it switches to a compass mode that points an arrow towards nearby tweets. For those a little farther away, you can see international tweets on a Google Maps layer, but of course you can also go to the traditional timeline to see everyone you’re following in a traditional chronological list. Twitter released official geolocation APIs a little over a month ago, so this AR interface should work with folks tweeting from any client that leverages them. Considering how few twitter users are yet to plug into geolocation right now, I would really like to have the option to see the public timeline in AR view just to see what random strangers in my area are talking about.
Personally, I’m a big fan of augmented reality, and based on other AR apps in recent memory, it seems like twitter will remain at the forefront of this new category of mobile software. If you’d like to give Twitter 360 a shot on your iPhone 3GS, you can download it from iTunes here for $2.99, or check out their page for a closer look at the app.
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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
