The popular award winning augmented reality app for BlackBerry 10 has been updated to v2.0, bringing a list of major changes including a whole new user interface, an updated Engine for better viewing and much more.
Augmented Reality has been a feature which hasn’t really gotten the popularity it deserves to, but that hasn’t stopped the folks over at ReFocus Tech to provide BlackBerry 10 users a refined and excellent experience with Augmented Reality. Using your smartphone camera, you can find places to visit and people to meet based by a number of things including weather, location, time and even trending places near you.
The app features:
- Easy to use augmented reality experience
- Sidekick Mode- Personalized recommendations based on our contextual engine
- Over 200 different categories of places to select from
- Multiple selection of categories
- Virtual Location (Experience any place in AR view, without having to go there)
- Shortcuts to frequently searched categories on home screen
- Get detailed information about places (Phone no, directions, address, ratings, etc)
- Get to know the time to reach a place, depending on traffic conditions
The update brings:
- Improved Sidekick Engine (Better suggestions via more contextual filters)
- Revamped user interface
- Home screen shortcuts for frequently used categories and sidekick engine
- Virtual locations – Experience any place in AR view, without having to go there!
- Estimation of time to destination
- More compact info page, showing only necessary information
- Map now enhanced with a traffic layer
- Multiple category selection
- New app icon, in preparation for Blackberry 10.3
- Optimized for Z10, Z30, Q10, Q5
- Drastically reduced loading/wait time
- Reduced file size from 12mb to 6mb
The ReFocus Tech team have been hard at work to give users the native Augmented Reality experience they deserve.  I personally haven’t used an AR app since OS 7 and I can’t emphasise just how much of a joy this app is. However, the app will cost you $2.99/£2.00
The team has even gone to the extent in providing eager users a teaser trailer before you decide to purchase the app.