Street Lens

Augmented reality app and your city guide, helps you discover places around you!

Street Lens is an augmented reality application that gives dynamic information about your surroundings such as shops, restaurants, banks, ATMs, gas stations, landmarks, police stations and other points of interest, shown as virtual signs overlaid on or above buildings.

Overview

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1. Shows important places around you.

2. Has more than 7 categories/types of places to show from

3. Conveniently switches from Camera view to Map view to list view without any tap of button

4. View the details of a place with just one tap

5. Reserve a hotel, call an ambulance, call a shop in just one tap in details view.

6. Tapping on the summary circle (shown in the top right of the Camera View) will display a bar using which you can control the distance of view.

7. Freeze or unfreeze the camera view when it is displaying the places by just tapping on the pause/play icon at the bottom left of the camera view. When on freeze mode the items won't change with the camera direction anymore. Once you are done studying the places of interest, tap on the play icon and you will go back to normal view.

8. See the traffic around your place in the map view

Details

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Street Lens makes finding the best of what’s around you as simple and natural as looking down a street. Street Lens uses your mobile’s camera display to reveal the best shops, restaurants, and other points of interest, so you instantly see what’s in that direction. Simply tap a place’s icon to see more information, see photos, make a call to that place or just read reviews about that place.

Hold your mobile down and you will see all the places in Google Map view. Tilt again to portrait mode and you will see the list of places in list view along with the direction to each of those places.

No more asking others for the best cafe. No more looking for sign boards. With Street Lens, you see what’s around you from your point of view, so finding something great has never been more easy and fun.

You can choose from one of the following categories

1. Food

2. Shopping

3. Transport (bus, taxi or metro)

4. Banks, ATMs and Fuel

5. Emergency services like doctors, ambulance, fire engines and police station

6. Popular Landmakrs

7. Religious places such as temples, churches, mosques and others

If you want to just know about popular places nearby, then use the "Closeby" category to display all the places around you.

You can choose how close and how far you need the places to be shown. You can select distance from as close as 300 metres to as far as 5 kilometres. You can also chose how many places to be shown ranging from 20 upto 60. Make your camera your city lens and your Street Lens depending on the distance.

Summary circle in the camera view displays places around the user as dots. Tapping on the summary circle will display a bar using which you can control the distance of view.

Freeze Feature: Using the freeze feature, you can stop the movement of camera view and see the place items without any motions. Once you click play the camera view resumes to its usual mode.

The app is powered by Google APIs.

The permissions used are for

1. getting your location and fetching places details from Google!

2. display Ads

Write to us at [email protected] if you have anything to say about the app.

Places shown: transit, poi, airport, aquarium, bakery, bank, bar, book store, bus station, cafe, car wash, church, dentist, department store, doctor, establishment, fire station, florist, food, gas station, grocery supermarket, health, hindu temple, hospital, library, lodging, mosque, movie theater, night club, police, school, shopping mall, subway station, taxi, train station, university

What's New in the Latest Version 2.3