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$299.99 Parrot AR.Drone Now Available for Pre-Order – Shipping September 3rd
$299.99 Parrot AR.Drone Now Available for Pre-Order – Shipping September 3rd is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
We got word this afternoon that the Parrot AR.Drone Quadricopter is going to be sold exclusively through Brookstone and is available for pre-order right now for $299.99. Brookstone plans on shipping orders on September 3rd, and the first 300 orders get a free flight bag. (Tempting, I know.) Currently, Brookstone is only willing to ship the Parrot AR.Drone to customers inside of the USA, and optionally available is a $49.95 bundle which includes a additional hull, battery, and an iPhone 3G/3GS case. They're also selling two and three year service plans for $39.99 or $49.99, although it's unclear whether or not breaking your AR.Drone by crashing it in to something is considered "normal wear and tear."
We got our first hands-on at CES 2010 earlier this year and thought it was incredibly cool-
The device is currently controlled using an iPhone/iPod Touch app which communicates through Wi-Fi to the AR.Drone itself. Simply tap on Launch and the AR.Drone takes off and hovers over a stationary spot. On screen controls are easy and effective.
Left/right buttons allow you to rotate 360 degrees in one spot, while up/down buttons control altitude. Pressing on a special button activates tilt-control on the iPhone/iPod Touch itself. This allow you to fly the device by naturally tilting the iPhone itself. Meanwhile, the on screen controls are overlayed with live video coming from the front-facing camera of the Drone itself.
In picking it up for the first time, I found it very easy to maneuver. The main thing I had to get used to was using the drone's point of view to steer, rather than my own. Check out our video:
The Parrot AR.Drone has some serious technology built in to it with its ability to auto-level itself, and pilot itself if it loses the connection with the device you're controlling it with. Remote control helicopters (which require much more skill to fly) sell for upwards of $1,000, making the $299.99 they're asking for everything the AR.Drone is capable of doing seem surprisingly appealing. For more information on the Parrot AR.Drone check out the web site and make sure to take a peek at their gallery of augmented reality games that you can play for the device.
I can't wait to get my hands on one.
Ghost Bastards AR
Ghost Bastards AR is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Ghost Bastards AR is paranormally addictive to play! Bend, swing and shake.
Use the camera of your iPhone as viewfinder and interact with “the beyond” (also compatible with iPod Touch in Background Mode).
Your device is transformed into the unique ultra sensitive instrument to see hordes of ghosts, bustling around humanity, and your fingers become an anti-ghost weapon. Go ahead and hunt these cute, but wild and totally uncontrolled entities!
Follow the GHOST HUNTER INSTRUCTION:
- Catch the ghost until it throws its web over you. Every single time it happens you lose one life.
- Move, rotate and shake the screen to see the elusive ghosts. Arrows will give a hint where ghosts are.
- Touch the area where you notice the ghost to pop it. Ghost bursts like a soap-bubble after a shot. Try to pop as much ghosts as you can.
- Remember the importance of saving your 10 extra lives, especially playing hard levels with amount of ghosts.
- Start your career as a Newbie and reach the Divine Warrior rank.
MODES:
- Background Mode (iPod touch/iPhone) – go to the most known ghosts’ abodes – dark secret caves, deserted castles and clear them from ghosts.
- Camera Mode (iPhone only) – interact with the beyond through the camera of your iPhone. Hunt ghosts directly at your apartment, office or at the street!
MeetMyTunes
MeetMyTunes is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Meetmytunes connect your ipod Live !
What ? : the first social music player.
How ? : launch the app, choose a track and have fun!
Main features :
The musical-DNA
When you create an account on meetmytunes, the application automatically analyzes your musical profile based on your favorite artists and songs.
You can access this information at any time in your user profile.
The musical-match
A percentage lets you quickly see your level of musical compatibility with other meetmytunes users.
The player & the live-feed
To take part in the fun, you have to listen to the music! The player gives you the possibility to share in real-time what you’re listening to through the live-feed.
- Access your iPod features without having to close the application.
- Create your playlists according to the type of people you want to meet.
- Check out who’s listening to the exact same song as you are, live!
Search for users on meetmytunes :
- by artists they listen to
- by songs they listen to
- by username
- by location
- by age
and much more…
Itunes store
See a song you like on someone’s profile? You can purchase it on the iTunes Store straight from the app !
Augmented Reality
Take your musical experience to the next level. Anytime, anywhere, switch to AR mode and see the 10 users who are listening to music closest to you.
(only on the iPhone 3GS)
Messages
Chat with other meetmytunes users through instant messaging. If you’re offline, you’ll get an email alert if someone sends you a message.
Share on Facebook
You can easily share your musical moods with your facebook friends whenever you feel like it.
Follow
Like the music on a user’s profile? You can simply follow that person to easily keep track of his or her musical evolution.
Wondering if your facebook friends or people you follow on twitter are on meetmytunes? Easy. Just ask meetmytunes to automatically import them!
Meetmytunes connect your ipod Live !
CES 2010: ‘Gunman’ – A Free (For a Limited Time) iPhone-Only Camera Game
CES 2010: ‘Gunman’ – A Free (For a Limited Time) iPhone-Only Camera Game is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
Aside from the Parrot AR.Drone quadricopter, we haven't come across much noteworthy in the world of iPhone gaming at CES– Everyone is far too busy looking at tablet computers being shown and speculating as to which is likely going to be the closest to Apple's tablet. That doesn't mean people at CES aren't playing iPhone games.
The developers behind Gunman [App Store], a camera-based shooter game, are currently running a contest encouraging people to get involved in Gunman battles at CES– And if the Twitter activity is any indication, quite a few people are. While this contest is largely irrelevant to those of us who aren't at CES, one great thing came out of it: Gunman is free for the duration of the convention.
Gunman makes use of the iPhone's camera to create a real-world multiplayer game similar to laser tag. By connecting to a WiFi network, players join a game then "shoot" each other by taking photos using the phone's camera. If you're running the latest iPhone OS, you can even zoom in as if you were using a sniper scope. Each player is tracked by the color of their shirt, and in my testing of the game I found the color recognition to be shockingly good.
The game comes with a few caveats of course. Large multiplayer games require WiFi, everyone must be wearing a different color shirt, and needless to say, until an iPod touch with a camera materializes you need an iPhone to play. Still, if you can round up a few friends all willing to wear different colored shirts that have iPhones in an area blanketed by WiFi, and don't mind people wondering what in the world you're doing running around pretending to shoot people with your phone, Gunman looks to be a lot of fun.
App Store Link: Gunman, Free (For a limited time.)
CES 2010: Parrot AR.Drone – An iPhone-Controlled Quadricopter
CES 2010: Parrot AR.Drone – An iPhone-Controlled Quadricopter is a post from: Best Iphone Apps Review Website
While we won't be on the floor of CES until tomorrow, the internet is already on fire with buzz surrounding the Parrot AR.Drone remote control quadricopter that is controlled by creating its own WiFi network that either an iPhone or an iPod Touch connects to. The Parrot AR.Drone is then maneuvered using the accelerometers of the iPhone combined with a video feed from the forward facing camera on the drone itself.
A smart piloting system intelligently compensates for wind and other environmental conditions, and utilizing a second camera which faces the ground can perform a flawless stationary flight on its own. If at any point you take your fingers off the iPhone autopilot engages stabilizing the drone, and if you quit the controller app or lose your connection to the Parrot AR.Drone's WiFi network the drone will stabilize itself and land all on its own.
As seen in the following video, the Parrot AR.Drone has two different hulls– A fully enclosed hull that protects the rotors from bumping in to walls and furniture indoors, and a hull for outdoors that sacrifices rotor protection for better maneuverability.
As if being able to fly around a drone using nothing more than your iPhone wasn't cool enough, an additional video on the Parrot AR.Drone web site demonstrates some augmented reality games you can play with the Parrot AR.Drone complete with picture in picture showing what the video feed and in-game HUD looks like. It apparently can even recognize shapes in 3D space to overlay different 3D models, such as the boss fight seen at the end of this video:
On top of all this, Parrot even has a developer zone featuring whitepapers that detail how to develop third party games that use the Parrot AR.Drone via an open API. All of these resources are available for free, and while the games shown in the above video were cool, I can't even imagine the potential if third party development support takes off.
Needless to say, we'll be keeping a close eye on the Parrot AR.Drone, and will post more information as it becomes available.
Friday Night Movie Night: Augmented Reality App for Orange Telecom
App: 3DVIA Mobile – Dassault Systemes | Review: Cool visitors at iWikiPhone =)
App: 3DVIA Mobile – Dassault Systemes | Review: Cool visitors at iWikiPhone =) is a post from: Best Iphone App Review Website
We have had a couple of random guests in the office the last couple of days. Check out his app.