“Social review service Yelp has snuck the first Augmented Reality iPhone app specifically for the US into the iTunes App Store. The undisclosed new feature allows iPhone 3Gs owners to shake their phones three times to turn on a view called ‘the Monocle,'” Marshall Kirkpatrick reports for ReadWriteWeb. “That view uses the phone’s GPS and compass to display markers for restaurants, bars or other nearby businesses on top of the camera’s view.”
Direct link via YouTube here.
Kirkpatrick reports, “Developers have not expected to be able to get Augmented Reality apps into the App Store until the release of the next iPhone OS this fall. Earlier this week, though, we reported on what appeared to be the very first – an update to an app called Metro Paris Subway.”
Full article here.
Yelp (free) via Apple’s U.S. App Store is here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Justin B.” for the heads up.]