Somewhere in the universe, eavesdropping a dialog between Captain Picard and his crew… „Captain, this is fascinating! This new tool knows the names of the mountains I am looking at.“

Experience the intriguing panorama of the peaks surrounding you. Have you ever wondered “What is the name of that prominent peak over there?” – find the answer simply by taking a look through the camera of your iPhone.

Stagger even the greatest hiking buffs when showing off the fascinating panoramic view this application provides when standing on top of a mountain! The most prominent peaks within the chosen range are automatically selected in order to produce a clean and uncluttered image.

This application works best with iPhone 3Gs which has an electronic compass to determine your heading.
However, users with other devices are not left in the dust. You can manually control the heading via tilting the iPhone to the left or right and still get a great deal of the augmented reality experience!

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Peak.ar demonstrates the augmented reality technology that was developed in the course of a recent research project. It is a very flexible tool that can be used to visualize any kind of geo-referenced data. At the same time it is the most intuitive way for interfacing with complex data from a user’s perspective – just point your iPhone to some real world object and it will tell you everything it knows about it. Lets not forget, its slick as hell!

Imagine your own data being presented in a completely new, cool fashion. Right now, we are looking for cooperations with innovative companies to explore new application domains of this exciting technology.

Interested? Contact us via peakar@salzburgresearch.at or use the contact page.