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Cyclopedia iPhone application
Cyclopedia
$1.99
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Description
- Category:
- Reference
- Release Date:
- Jul 24, 2009
- Homepage:
- http://www.chemicalwed...
- Publisher:
- Chemical Wedding
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Cyclopedia uses the iPhone camera, compass (so it only works on the 3GS I'm afraid) and GPS together to create an augmented reality of the world by overlaying Wikipedia information over the viewfinder. By moving the iPhone around you will see articles pop up according to the direction you are pointing, You can then click on the title to get a quick overview article and, if you want to know more , you can then dive deeper into the full article.
You can also display the entries on a regular top-down map and search the whole of wikipedia for anything you want.
When the app first launches it searches for all the articles that are within 30 miles of your current position. It then filters them according to two distance radii you set within the app . Though the default is fine. You can set a near and a far distance to really pinpoint the information you want to see. If you’re in St Mark’s Square in Venice you might set the radius to be close so only the things you can see are shown, but if you’re sitting at the top of the London Eye you might want to set it to give you everything within 1 and 2 miles of you.
To really fine-tune your search, you can also drag the sliders at the top of the screen to set the field of view that they app uses to display the information.
***Languages***
Many people have pointed out that we're lacking access to foreign language entries on Wikipedia. We're sorry about that but it will be fixed in the next update we promise.
There are currently 65,000 entries in Wikipedia that have geotagged information included in them and all of these are available to you through the system. If you find a location that you don’t feel is included. Go and add the gps data directly into Wikipedia yourself and it will eventually pop up in the app. That’s the beauty of Wikipedia.
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Cyclopedia are the names of the apps and both require the new iPhone 3GS. That's because the 3GS is the first iPhone with an internal compass - AR apps use your phone's GPS to know where you are and the compass to know which direction you're looking at. Then these two apps can tell you what you're lo...
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Great little app!
By:
LotharGores
Version: 2.0
If there is no GPS data stored in an article on wikipedia then it will not show in the app. That said, this app realy works well!
Cool idea. Needs update.
By:
natebig
Version: 1.0
Worked for about a day and now just crashes. Deleted and redownloaded and same thing happened. Fix it. Great app when it works which is rare.
Slick
By:
Guinea Worm
Version: 1.0
I've tried a few augmented reality apps, and this is the only one that seems ready for prime time. The UI is very slick. This would be better if it went beyond wikipedia, so I could see restaurants and shops.
This App is astounding
By:
lust_-
Version: 1.0
After recently searching the App Store I found this little gem named Cylopedia. This application is one of the best on my iPhone 3GS.
Wikipedia entries are always fun to read to pass the time even if they aren't all 100% accurate...Cylopedia takes it a step further and allows the user to interact with the local area using the iPhone's camera and location services melded with wikipedia.
The interface is friendly, slick and well organized...there's even a help menu overlay. The only complaint I have about the visuals is when your in map mode the location icon looks suspiciously like some other company's IM client logo.
I would reccomend this to anyone with the iPhone 3GS and with the 1.99 price tag you'd have to be a fool to pass it up.
Crashing and confusing.
By:
Groovy Amusement
Version: 1.0
Sigh! Cool idea, but it seems not ready for the world.
Never opens
By:
keegandewitt
Version: 1.0
I've tried to open the application 5 times and each time it sits infinitely at a screen that reads "Finding GPS Location".
Not all is found using the app.
By:
LotharGores
Version: 1.0
Why does the app icon read "Cyclopedia_new"?
I live in Bermuda and just stood infront of our "Gibbs Hill Lighthouse" - not showing in the app! However, the lighhouse has a full page in Wikipedia!
App crashing tip
By:
New Yorker Tourist
Version: 1.0
Initially, the app refused to work on my 3GS. To resolve the issue, I rebooted the iPhone by holding down Home and Power until the Apple came up. Works like a charm now.
Augmented reality arrives
By:
Bwhoback
Version: 1.0
Uses the 3GS's compass, GPS, camera, and the ever-growing wikipedia geolocated database to render a very elegantly executed app... Even in first generation guise.
If you want a heads-up-display for your phone, pull the trigger on this one.
Very buggy
By:
Paul Horne
Version: 1.0
Cool idea, but it's not working on my 3GS. It shows a few articles, but nothing changes when I point in different directions, none of the buttons on the right work, and it keeps crashing. It seems less like augmented reality and more like one of the many "What's near me?" apps, but maybe I'd be more impressed if it was working consistently.
Simply incredible
By:
Myxel
Version: 1.0
Saw a preview of this on gizmodo and had to check it out. The entire concept of augmented reality is awesome and they really bring it to you here in a polished and stable enviroment.
Just a word of warning to anyone in a heavily geo-tagged area, the app will chug if you have to many markers coming up at once so dial back the top slider if you get some slowdown. I'm in the LA area and you get pretty much everything and anything. The site of the big brother house made me lol.
Wow! Simply Amazing!
By:
rudedogg
Version: 1.0
I think this app is so cool, I would pay more then the $1.99 asking price. Great app!
Amazing
By:
Grubbytoy
Version: 1.0
Five years ago this kind of application would have been considered science fiction. Truly fantastic.
