Description
* New major upgrade for a unique app available since its first acclaimed launch for iPhone 3GS early in 2010 *
* Finally optimized for your iPhone4S and iPad2 with dual core A5 support *
* Augmented Driving is available for iPhone3GS/4/4S and iPad2 *
Augmented Driving - Upgrade your car with augmented reality and advanced real-time object detection running on your iOS device and experience augmented reality in action on the road.
Are you often going for longer trips on highways or country roads, or are you stuck in daily stop-and-go traffic? Then you do not want to miss the impressive technology of Augmented Driving 3.0 covering the following really awesome features to support your driving:
Lane Detection and Lane Departure Warning:
- Your own lane is highlighted with dynamic overlays in the augmentation video display
- The width of your lane and your distance to its borders is indicated
- As soon as you cross the lane markings you are informed by an acoustical signal
- To significantly increase availability of this function, we added tracking of single lane markings
Vehicle Detection and 2-Level Safety Distance Monitoring:
- Vehicles in front of you are detected and dynamically highlighted
- A new close-up view zooms in on the relevant vehicle
- Relevant information, such as vehicle distance and time gap, is displayed in the HUD
- If your distance falls below an adjustable threshold a 2-level warning is issued
Stop-and-Go Assistant:
- If you come to a dead stop in stop-and-go-situations, Augmented Driving detects moving off traffic in front of you and issues an acoustical information
Speeding Avoidance:
- To avoid speeding you are warned when a user-defined speed-limit is exceeded
Visual Logbook and Video MP4-Recording:
- Screenshots can be taken manually or by enabling the intelligent, situation-adaptive automatic recording feature
- As a completely new feature reserved for all dual core devices, you may save the screen contents as a full MP4 video stream including a buffer of the past 5 seconds
- Recorded videos can be retrieved as App documents via iTunes, screenshots are stored in your photo album
Information HUD:
- Relevant system, status and driving information such as your current speed and driving course are overlaid to the augmented video display
Sound and Voice Output:
- Acoustical warnings can be configured to be a standard sound or an appealing voice output
- We added multi-language voice output in English (new voices for US, UK), French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Chinese
Other Features:
- Our new Mount'n'Go technology allows for fast and easy calibration of your device at startup
- To guarantee best accuracy an automatic fine-calibration permanently monitors the orientation of your camera
And finally, everything is presented in an incredibly cool futuristic visual style !
Important note:
For operation, GPS availability and a fix mount on the windshield are required. Please make sure to follow the safety notes and consider the instructions of the installation video for optimum performance. Augmented Driving is intended for promotion of modern image analysis and object detection technologies on portable devices only. Augmented Driving is not suited for dynamic driving situations or operation in bad lighting conditions and must not be misused as a road safety system, e.g. for collision warning and the like. The application is strictly not designed to replace, substitute or complement any vehicle on-board safety or assistance systems. The end-user is in no way exempt from his duty of attention to the road and his due diligence.
Please visit our webpage for more information and support. We appreciate every feedback to improve Augmented Driving.
What's New in Version 3.0
Augmented Driving 3.0 features over 40 new functions and improvements:
General
- Optimized functionality for dual core A5 processor devices (iPhone4S and iPad2)
- Now supports iPod music and navigation apps in background
- New MountNgo feature for easy calibration to be ready right from the start
- Retina display support for images, menus and new icon
- Multi language voice output (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese)
User-interface
- Double tap the screen to take a screenshot
- Indication of distance and time gap for the relevant vehicle
- Close-up view of the relevant vehicle with different viewing modes
- Set the speed limit to the current speed by double tapping the speeding avoidance display
- Improved interface with acoustic feedback in video-mode
Functionality
- Added video recording feature with 5 seconds backwards-buffer for dual core A5 devices
- Reworked and improved lane detection performance
- Tracking of single lane markings
- Strongly improved vehicle detection performance
- Vehicle detection on roads without lane markings
- Heavily improved distance estimation for vehicles
- Two level warning strategy for distance monitoring
Other
- Improved device orientation markers for mounting
- New app background management for disclaimers and calibration
- Many other improvements, updates and some minor bug fixes
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Much better
As I understand from the previous versions reviews the app had some flaws, but now it is much better. Especially convenient feature - background music support.
Joke
Sat for 5 min didn't detect cars or lanes on a busy interstate. Apparently thinks I'm speeding... 63 on a 65. Weird. And the voice. I couldn't find a way to shut the pig up. I want to listen to music. Never again in my life.
Ideas is there, needs work
Good: The app does what it is suppose to do. Tracks lanes, tracks lane departure, tracks speed (and preset speeding option), tracks cars and distance in front of you (for the most part).
Bad: Interface really clunky, hard to really use without presetting it up and getting all the options done before ever getting in the car, and several trips to really get the setting how you prefer it. Very unintuitive gestures to do certain things, and very hard to understand labeling and features.
What you get is really a very interesting program and you get something that bigger more luxury high-end cars get for a fraction of the price. The down side is that it doesn't all always work, it's clunky and very unintuitive. I really think its an over all brilliant idea, That it can detect your lane (although it may take some time), and then tell/warn you when you are about to depart from it, can tell you that the car in front of you is X amount of distance away (although not always super accurate, but gives you a decent estimate), and that it will even notify you if the car in stop and go traffic in front of you is pulling away. Doesn't always work well at night, won't work on dark highways, but in the city where there are good lighted streets will still pick up the lanes on occasion, but the vehicle tracking, and the app dealing with the camera autofocus (should set focus fixed in the middle) probably causes some problems with the apps abilities.
Now that interface, you get these series of "panel" like option pages, that gets you to set it up, you can estimate the cars height and width, obviously the more accurate you are the more accurate the program will track for you. Then you get these series of gestures, swiping down to get to the voice/noise/color page where you can customize how you are warned when you get to a certain things, if you make the wrong gesture, there is a brief flash in the screen of gestures that you can perform. Here is where you wish you can just have the normal iPhone app setup of actual menus and buttons rather than this strange setup. Then there is exiting the option menu by double tapping… really makes it a hard thing to get to certain things… I guess the whole menu was designed supposedly around so you can do everything in the app while driving without really needing to focus in on touching buttons. I found out to change your "speeding" warning sign is to slide your finger in the middle of the screen while it is viewing the street (now i know it would have to have a database to get the actual speed limit of the road you are driving on, but that could be a cool feature).
In this new version the author added the feature to record video while you drive, the actual record button now records video, before you could double tap the screen and it would take a screenshot. It looks pretty could playing it back on your computer with the hud displaying everything, the lane tracking, the vehicle tracking, the warnings and stuff, but the only way to get to the videos is hooking it up to iTunes and downloading them from the apps section, and then there is no real way to delete the videos besides deleting the whole app… talk about cumbersome. The video quality isn't the best either, not 1080p, definitely smaller, but that's probably because they would be massive if you went on a longer drive.
All in all, this program delivers on what it promises, lane assist/departure, with vehicle tracking, but because of its clumsy interface and lackluster polish really makes it much less friendly to use. It is a fun toy, that's all it is, and if the developer works on the interface, I think it could be something very fun to use as an everyday driving tool. This app is definitely unique enough for a try, but be warned, it's probably not going to the the most useful app you've come across.
- $2.99
- Category: Navigation
- Updated: Mar 06, 2012
- Version: 3.0
- Size: 31.0 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: imaGinyze
- © 2010-2012 imaGinyze
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, and iPad Wi-Fi + 4G.Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
