App concepts do n’t get much mere than this , or much cooler : Cyclopedia takes Wikipedia’stens of thousandsof geotagged ingress , and overlays them onto a live , compass - orient view of your environs .
If this voice an awful lot likeWikitude , the AR Android app that just ca n’t seem to eek its way into the App Store , that ’s because it is an awful destiny like Wikitude — except with a more polished user interface , and , well , iPhone bread and butter . ( Sort of : non-3GSers need not apply ) . As with Wikitude , kindle this affair up around a intimate placement wo n’t really blow out your mind , since Wikipedia ’s geographical article concentration is still passably humbled .
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But if you ’re visiting a new place — that is , a place Wikipedia editor in chief manage to write about — Cyclopedia ceases to be an AR tech demonstration , and with adjustable lookup radii , a top - down mapping way and non - geocaches Wikipedia seek , in reality starts to be utilitarian . usable now in the App Store for $ 2 ; telecasting demo at the informant link . [ Chemical Wedding ]
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