PeakFinder, all the data of the mountains and mountains around us in augmented reality: the app of the week

Augmented reality has many and varied uses. One of them is the one given by the PeakFinder development team: Show us the names and heights of all the mountains, ranges, and mountains around us at a specific time and place. The app, in a nutshell, is as easy to use as take your iPhone out of your pocket, focus on a mountain and automatically see your name at the top

. Let’s take a closer look at this curious and interesting application.

A design thought for augmented reality, but that can be used without it

The interface of PeakFinder is very simple: a single information window where we see the profile of the mountains around us as well as their information. Thanks to the precise location of the GPS and the compass of our device, the application is able to overlay the information with the actual image captured by the camera of our device, resulting in a combination of the most curious and the most useful.

On this screen we find several buttons. At the top right we find the orientation indicator, a compass that marks where we are looking. Bottom right, the location button, to establish our location based on GPS data. At the bottom left we find the settings, here we can adjust the visibility, as well as the date and time of day, to know the position of the sun and the moon at this moment.

An application to see the name and height of the mountains around us in augmented reality? Of course you do, PeakFinder’s @peakfastinderorg pic.twitter.com/vbSZjCsJIs

– David Bernal Raspall (@ david_br8) May 3, 2021

Continuing with the available buttons, we find a slider in the central left part to adjust our height from the ground and at the top left we see the last two buttons. The one represented with a camera allows us to activate or deactivate augmented reality mode

, while the three lines give us access to a selection of locations, a list of peaks visible in the photos we were able to take from the app and other preferences.

Take out the iPhone and point it, no more

Considering the interface, which offers a multitude of options, the truth is that using the application is very easy. Thanks to the orientation and the GPS, important that one allows a precise localization, one can enjoy the information we want in a very visual way. As can be seen in the previous image, the result is quite impressive.

The truth is that the app doesn’t focus on giving us a lot of information, if not on allow us to access it easily

. A system that allows us both to explore the mountain ranges from our sofa and to locate ourselves while we observe the relief.

It’s clear that augmented reality does more than just put a dinosaur in the dining room. Applications like these remind us that being able to overlay the information the Internet makes available to us with information about when and where we are can yield impressive results. For the PeakFinder sample, without a doubt.

We can acquire PeakFinder in the App Store for a single purchase of 5.49 dollars.

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