3 Oct 2010

Final Minor: Ipad is advert

Towards the end of the following video is a little demo of the starwalk app for ipad which I thought would be really relative and interesting to adapt for my project. The itunes page is
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/star-walk-for-ipad-interactive/id363486802?mt=8
whilst the official website is located at
http://vitotechnology.com/geowalk.html



basically this quote from the site sums up everything

"For the record, the chairman’s favorite iPhone app is Vito Technology’s Star Walk, a simple astronomy application that harnesses the iPhone’s GPS capabilities to present an on-screen view of what stars and constellations should be visible on a clear night from your current location."
- Arik Hesseldahl, at BusinessWeek

Now if I was able to implement that into say my own app for something like a virtual tour of lets say what London used to look like and with help by using the inbuilt compass you get I would be able to overlay onto existing scenery. So for me the idea of this being a few years off seems almost present day...

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