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  • Twitter 360 Augmented Reality app for Twitter

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    Victor Agreda Jr
    Victor Agreda Jr
    12.02.2009

    As far as AR (augmented reality) Twitter apps go, Twitter 360 [iTunes Link] looks like the best of the bunch... so far. In what will no doubt become the top term of 2010, this augmented reality app allows you to track your friends via geolocation of their tweets. If you're into that sort of thing (or have an iPhone 3GS, since AR apps use the compass to position their markers). If the thought of strangers tracking you while you tweet creeps you out (and frankly, it should), rest assured that tracking is opt-in in that you can turn off geotagging for your tweets. As Fast Company points out, a neat feature is setting your "limit" or range of detection for tracking tweets. You can set this to World and see just how far away everyone is from wherever you happen to be standing. So yeah, pretty soon we'll all be tracking each other all over the place. What could go wrong? Twitter 360 is currently $2.99US and is from Presselite, the folks who snuck in the first AR app without Apple's detection. Thanks for opening the floodgates! Check out the video of the app in action, below.

  • Finally, one of the first announcements made about Wrath of the Lich King was that Dalaran would be moving north to hover over Northrend, to serve as this expansion's Shattrath-like hub. So the big purple bubble will be leaving old Azeroth, and in its place -- well, we aren't quite sure what will be there. A huge crater? A leftover part of the Mage city? Another magical structure? If Dalaran is headed north (and it is), then the violet Citadel will need to put something in Alterac Mountains, so even Forsaken leveling up through Silverpine will be able to see that something has changed in the old world.

    iPhone augmented reality game sets the world on fire

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    JC Fletcher
    JC Fletcher
    11.13.2009

    The new Firefighter 360 for the iPhone 3GS lets you experience the thrill of seeing everything around you burst into flames, without all that pesky heat and death. The augmented reality game, developed by Presselite, superimposes fires -- and virtual victims -- over the iPhone camera's view of the world, with flames generated in every direction, spreading and multiplying. And it's up to you, as an inexplicably cel-shaded fireman, to douse the flames and rescue the citizens. Firefighter 360 was added to the App Store November 10, at a price of .99. Seriously, why is he cel-shaded? He's in the real world. See a video demonstration of the game after the break. Firefighter 360 ($.99): %Gallery-78093%