Yandex navigator with augmented reality. Yandex

Yandex, a company that recently turned two decades old, continues to delight its users with new products that meet the latest in augmented reality technologies.

Happy owners of devices with iOS system 11 literally just before its release, they got the opportunity to use Yandex.Maps in a new format. The newly created function is available to those who are concerned about downloading the router itself, namely version 9.6, to their “Apple” equipment. Compatibility is observed with gadgets equipped with an A9 processor: several models of iPhones (starting from 6S\SE) and iPads.

How to enable AR mode in Yandex.Maps

Once AR is activated, you will see the route through your smartphone's camera. Virtual markers will be superimposed on the cityscape and you will not get lost - even at night. The usual map format is easy to return to the device screen if necessary, since it is present in the form of a miniature at the bottom of the display.

For now, the AR navigator can produce erroneous “pointers”, so the familiar format is still an important thing - we can only hope that over time all the shortcomings will be corrected by the developers.

Generally, new feature more than useful; it has every chance to gradually become even better and gain popularity among a wide audience.

The developers of this application really deserve attention. The guys don’t just use a newfangled feature, but realize its potential to 100%.

The training program will clearly show and explain how the transmission works, the battery releases charge, the laser shines, what lobes the brain consists of, and much more.

Firstly, it is a visual, detailed interactive. Everything can be rotated, scaled, parts touched and given hints.

Secondly, there is a step-by-step tutorial, like a teacher with a book telling about certain things.

Thirdly, this is not a one-time program, but an entire platform into which new units sorted by category will be loaded. The application is free, but to my great regret it is in English.

On the other hand, it’s a good reason to improve your English. JIG Space is perhaps the most useful, impressive and inspiring app available in the AR category. This is the future in the education system. And many complex things become a little easier.

TapMeasure

Thanks to TapMeasure, you can measure the length of objects, determine the deviation of shapes from a given plane, and even create a three-dimensional floor plan taking into account windows, doors and other surfaces.

In the end it will work out interactive model where you can see all sizes. A very convenient thing, especially when you need to sketch or measure something, but don’t have a tape measure or laser at hand. Of course, the accuracy leaves much to be desired.

It is worth considering that the error per meter can be a centimeter or more. But in the absence of any other more accurate tool, such a solution is still a way out.

IKEA Place

The guys from IKEA quickly picked up and adopted ARKit, making a cool addition to their catalog. Now you can fit many things from the Swedish furniture factory into your room and see how good or bad it will look.

The models are high poly and look pretty cool. There are two main complaints - there is no way to scale objects, the application simply does not always accurately match the size, and the lack of a program in Russian App Store. For the rest, keep it up. Add more things from the catalog, attach all the characteristics to them and you will be happy and have a lot of convenience.

SketchAR

If you don't know how to draw, then all is not lost. And for this initial stage You don’t have to go to a club at a cultural center. The Sketch AR app will help you with this. Preferably by pointing the camera at an A4 piece of paper, the scanner will recognize it and show four dots that need to be drawn.

They will become reference values ​​for the system, after which the image selected from the catalog will be projected. Of course, you can hold it with one hand and draw the picture with the other, but it’s better to mount your smartphone or tablet on a tripod.

With SketchAR you can easily get a good and most importantly proportional skeleton of the image. Then all you have to do is finish the job without help.

Magicplan

The main focus of this application is on drawing up drawing plans of premises and augmented reality technology helps a lot with this. There is no need to draw every line - we quickly ran around the room, noting the corners, and we get a ready-made plan.

Where necessary, they corrected it, where necessary, they completed the drawing. Then, we added doors, windows and furniture from a structured catalog and after just 5 minutes you have an excellent sketch ready that you are not ashamed to show.

During repairs, this application will become simply irreplaceable. The cool thing is that then all the resulting premises can be combined into one project and you will get an apartment or a house.

Housecraft

One of the first test examples of augmented reality was a program from Apple that allows you to arrange a couple of pieces of furniture. Did the Housecraft developers take this idea further and add a ton of interactivity and houseware elements?

Items can be arranged with high accuracy, rotate, scale and even place virtual models on top of each other. So furnishing a room with interior elements, even virtual objects, will not be difficult.

Night Sky

The far from new Night Sky application, after a recent update, received two augmented reality modes - classic, with a starry sky overlay, and with display solar system. True, the latest feature is only available by subscription. It's good that at least the first month is free. So we had some fun, studied the sky and our system and that was enough.

Yandex maps

The guys from Yandex decided to become pioneers in a world where cartography and augmented reality coexist. In pedestrian mode, when building a route on the ground, a point and the path to it will be displayed.

So far, all this has been implemented very simply and has practically no benefit, but it is a clear example of the fact that you can work in this direction and it will look organic.

All that remains is to finalize the linking of the route, add interactive signs to the buildings and make smart augmented reality glasses, and the technological future will definitely be one step closer.

App in the Air

This application will prompt and show routes and flight status online for certain flights. If you discard a bunch of basic functions and focus on augmented reality, then based on your flight history for the entire time or for a specific year, the program will show on a three-dimensional ball all your flights and your accumulated mileage. This is of little use, but of course you can take a beautiful photo on Instagram.

But if the developers integrated flight flights into augmented reality online, it would be much cooler.

Paint Space AR

And the AR drawing app closes our rating. There is nothing special here - you choose colors, tools or some effects and just play around, painting virtual environment. Why this might be needed in practice - I don’t know.

Also, the developers provided only a limited number of tools, colors and features. Please pay for the rest.

Unfortunately, applications implemented using augmented reality in App Store negligibly few, and even fewer intelligent ones. IN Google Play Such programs will begin to appear a little later, because Google has delayed the release of a package for developers.

(also known as Wi2Geo) has launched its augmented reality app AlterGeo for iPhone (iTunes link). It allows users to get location information about friends and places by looking through their phone's camera.

A completely new type of map has become available to iPhone users, which allows them to explore the space of a metropolis easier, faster and more technologically advanced. By looking through their mobile device's camera, they can now see pop-up information messages about places and friends, superimposed on a real image of the surroundings: for example, 500 meters in this direction there is a cafe, 710 meters away there is an ATM, and 843 meters away there is a tire shop. The same pop-up messages in the appropriate direction will tell you which of your friends registered in AlterGeo is nearby and at what exact distance. The iPhone 3G S app uses built-in mobile device compass, for others iPhone models a hand compass ruler is provided, which the user scrolls.

With the new application, the surrounding reality is supplemented with information from the AlterGeo database, social service, which allows you to determine the location of users and show on the map places of interest located nearby: cafes, restaurants, cinemas, shops, car washes, car services and many others.

“AlterGeo users will be able to meet and communicate with those with whom they go to the same establishments,” says Wi2Geo co-founder Denis Alaev. - For this purpose, it is possible to “check in” at a specific place. You can inform only your friends that you are in this particular club, or you can tell all users without restrictions. This also allows you to find out the opinions of other users about a particular establishment and get a real, “live” recommendation. For example, I see that a person constantly goes to a restaurant where I am now for the first time, I can write him a message and find out what the chef does best.”

The AlterGeo application became the first augmented reality application in Russia. Augmented reality is the Russian translation of the generally accepted name for a new trend in the world of high technology - augmented reality (abbreviated as AR), when reality is supplemented with information from the Internet or other databases. One of the most famous examples of augmented reality is graphic image trajectories of movement of a ball or puck during the broadcast of various sports games.
Thanks to alternative geography from AlterGeo, it has become surprisingly easy to explore new areas of the metropolis, look for the right places nearby, find out which friends are nearby, and communicate - just look at the world around you through the camera of your iPhone.

More details about the application can be found on the website

We received support for navigation mode with augmented reality based on ARKit for all Apple smartphones, starting from iPhone SE and newer.

How does it work and how useful can such a feature be called?

How to turn it on

To enable augmented reality navigation mode, you must first plot a walking route from one point to another, launch it, and then click on big blue button.

She will immediately put the phone into mode AR, will launch the camera and plot a route.

How does it work

The route is laid out in the form of virtual points directly on your path, while the usual map is displayed in miniature. It can be increased if suddenly AR navigation started to fail and show incorrect coordinates.

This, unfortunately, still happens. I was crossing a bridge and the end point of the route in augmented reality mode suddenly became the opposite of what I needed. In other conditions there were no problems even late in the evening.

And this is a really cool thing! It’s not always possible to find your way around in the evening regular map and on the ground, but here everything is shown right before your eyes through the smartphone camera. Get lost unreal.

What's the result?

A cool and useful feature that will definitely get better over time. This kind of navigation is the future. Worth praise Yandex for implementing the latest features so quickly.

By the way, tomorrow the company turns 20 years old and you can read about it on

Living in a more or less large populated area, it is very difficult to do without navigation tools. What can we say if you live in a metropolis. That's why you should definitely have one of the navigation apps for your iPhone on hand.

One of the first navigators for smartphones to implement offline maps, so you don’t have to go to the Internet to find point B. But 2GIS is not easy mobile cards, it is also an extremely informative reference book, comparable to the Yellow Pages. Find a nearby place to eat? No problem. Moreover, if you want to book a table, in 2GIS you will find out not only the address, but also the opening hours, as well as contact information.

The peculiarity of the application is that the first time you launch it, you will in any case need to download offline maps for your city, that is, 2GIS simply does not work online. When building a route, 2GIS takes into account how you will get there: on foot, by public transport, taxi or personal car. For each case, one or more shortest possible routes will be selected.

Yandex maps

And if 2GIS allowed you to work with offline maps from the very beginning, then in Yandex.Maps this opportunity appeared quite recently. But this does not make the application worse, since thanks to the ability to work online we get a lot useful information. For example, if you are moving on ground transport, It is important to know Current state expensive The application will show the level of traffic congestion on your route and, if necessary, select a route to avoid traffic jams.

As in the case of 2GIS, the route is formed based on how you plan to get there. Moreover, if you want to take a taxi, you can immediately see the cost of the trip from the application, and also call Yandex.Taxi literally in one click. And when getting to your destination for the first time, you will certainly be pleased with the opportunity to virtually walk through the city streets using the function "Augmented Reality".

Yandex.Navigator

If Yandex.Maps is a universal application for creating any type of routes, searching for organizations, viewing their operating hours and contact information, then Yandex.Navigator is indispensable assistant for motorists. It’s not difficult to arrive at your destination using the most optimal route - all you have to do is follow the tips on the navigator maps. And so that you don’t miss the right turn, the auto-informer will tell you in advance where you should go.

The capabilities of Yandex.Navigator can be listed for a very long time, here are just the main ones: speed control (you can set your own parameters), notification of speed cameras, display of traffic jam levels, offline work, "Talkers", where drivers can share information about road conditions in specific areas. A nice bonus will be different voices for the informant, for example, users recently became available opportunity hear tips from Darth Vader, Optimus Prime, Master Yoda and many other famous characters. If you have a car, then this navigator must be installed.

Navitel Navigator

Next up is another car navigator for iPhone. If you are an experienced motorist, then you have probably heard about such a well-known company as Navitel, whose maps were once installed on almost every navigator. If we talk about the application for the iPhone, here the developers pay attention to the interface at the last moment, which cannot be said about the functionality.

For example, the most significant advantage of Navitel is its coverage area: if you are an avid traveler, you will be pleased with the fact that it works great throughout Europe, Asia and America, and the navigator operates offline (but you should take into account the impressive weight many cards). Among other features, it is worth highlighting a convenient search for important organizations, displaying the level of traffic jams, providing a detailed weather forecast, speed control, as well as searching and adding friends.

Google Maps

One of Google's most significant services is Maps. If previously the Google application was much inferior to the Yandex solution (largely due to the low detail of the maps even in large cities), now they are approximately equal, but Google has several notable options that its competitor does not have.

For example, during long-term use Google Maps, you will probably be interested in reviewing the places you have visited. If you need your loved ones to know where you are at the moment, activate the geodata transfer function. No internet access? No problem! Just download offline maps first and use them at any time, wherever you are.

MAPS.ME

An indispensable app for travelers. When you decide to visit a new country, do not forget to download the region you need in order to use MAPS.ME without access to the Internet.

The main features of MAPS.ME include selection of entertainment in the selected region, formation of routes (unlike other mapping applications for iPhone, there is the ability to create bicycle routes), convenient search for establishments by category, instant saving of placemarks, sending the current location to friends and much more. other.

Each of the presented iPhone applications has detailed and constantly updated maps, but at the same time, they are very different, having their own unique capabilities. We hope that with our help you were able to find the ideal offline cards for yourself.