Look Around: An Augmented Reality based Indoor Navigational App

Imagine you are in an Airport or a Shopping Mall and you want to go to your terminal or find a store. How would you do this? Google Maps won't help you here. You need to ask the people around you or read the signs and boards.

Wouldn't it be awesome if there were to be an app that showed you directions on your phone? Well, your wait is over. This new app called Look Around does exactly that. To put icing on the cake, it provides you with an Augmented Reality view! Just like in those science fiction movies!

Enough of intro, let's look at the app!

This is the Augmented Reality View. It shows the location pins right on the Camera View.

How do you get this app?

Download the app from Google play at http://bit.ly/look-ar

Open the App and do a Search (by location co-ordinates or by name)

Download the map by tapping it

Click on the downloaded map and Look Around!

Map Preview/Bird's eye view:

Now, how do you create the indoor maps?

Click on the Drawer Menu in the top left.

Select My Maps.

Signin with Google+ account

Add new Map by clicking "+" on the Menu item.

Enter the Location Name and detail and save it.

Now start adding Points of Interests.

You can choose location co-ordinates from the GPS or by tapping on the map directly!

Supported on Tablets too!

This is a free app with no Ads or in app purchases!

Better Education with Apps

What I really liked at Google I/O this year was Google's initiative for having a Google Play for Education. This is great announcement because a smartphone or a tablet with right educational tools can create miracles in the life of a student.
The educational apps provide a lot of advantages to the students. It gives the freedom from carrying heavy books to the schools. It has interactive learning features that allows student to learn with more ease and help them to understand the concepts clearly.

Keeping the same goals in my mind, I have created an app called High School Physics. As we know Mathematics is the language of Physics and is very critical for understanding some of the advanced concepts in it. But many times, a great number of Physics enthusiasts often get intimidated by the vast amount of Mathematics used in Physics.
The app High School Physics tries to solve that problem. This app provides a great tool that helps student to concentrate on Physics without having to be drowned in the sea of Mathematical Equations.

Features of High School Physics App:

• Equations Calculator for over 170 equations covering over 20+ lessons.
• 160+ Definitions covering all the topics.
• Descriptions for all the Units and Lessons.
• Wiki pages for all the Units and Lessons inside the app.
• Equations List for all the formulae.
• Clipboard support for all the Equations and Results

You can download it from the Google Play here.

Below are some of the screenshots of the app.

The App is also available for Windows Phone platform. Some of the screenshots of WP are are below:

It can be downloaded at http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=f3708bd8-32a3-4308-99c8-143c6da181a8

Privacy Policy:

This app collects the email id of the users so that the resource is not abused. The email id will not be shared with anyone and no promotional mails/offers will be sent.

The app has been featured in popular media like Times of India, NextBigWhat, Technodify and YourStory and Android Dissected.