Discover how a Samsung Galaxy S3 would look in your hand
Sometimes our battered economy keeps us from getting that smartphone that we want so much However, the applications can also solve this. Can you imagine one that would allow you to have that phone of your dreams in your hands? Well, it exists, it's called HandsonAR and it does that, more or less. And it is that, using the technology of augmented reality allows us to see how the most cutting-edge phones would lookin our hand or anywhere.
For those who don't know it, augmented reality is a technology that mixes real images taken with the camera of the device, with others created by the computer and superimposed on the first ones. With this, it is possible to use a telephone to focus on a street and see superimposed labels of premises Or in this case, focus our hand and see a last generation terminal. Almost as if we could touch it, thanks to the card or QR code needed by the application HandsonAR and can be downloaded here or on the application page
Thus, we come across a most curious tool that allows us to dream that we have another terminal. This application requires a mobile Android and the commented code which is nothing more than adrawing that we must print on any sheet of paperThus, once printed we can start the application to start playing After a small initial load we are presented with the terminals that we can represent with the code printed next to their technical sheets
Specifically we can transform paper into a HTC One X, a Samsung Galaxy S3 , a Galaxy Note 2, the LG Optimus Vu, the tablet ASUS Nexus 7 and the recent Nokia Lumia 920 This first presentation of the terminals together with their technical sheets also allows us to rotate and move therepresentations in any direction to know their shape . But the really curious thing about HandsonAR is being able to see these models at natural For this we only have to press the lower button AR view that will be in charge of starting the camera of our own terminal .
When the camera is available, we just have to focus on the printed paper Automatically the terminal that we were seeing on said paper. Thus, it may seem that it is placed on any surface, even on our hand. But the functions of HandsonAR while we are in this mode we have several options to interact If we click on the represented terminal we will see new screens, we can even rotate if we slide our finger In addition, we can vary the color of its casing by clicking on the palette icon on the screen. We can also take an image of what is seen on the screen, being able to play a joke by pretending that we already have that device in our possession. And even more, we can click on the + button to add another terminal and perform a virtual comparison
In short, a very curious application that helps us learn about another of the services offered by the augmented reality Also, it never hurts to fantasize and imagine what it would be like to have one of these brand new terminals in our hand. But the best thing is that we can do all this Free The application HandsonAR can be downloaded without spend not one euro from Google Play for terminals Android
