Presselite has released an app for iPhone that brings augmented reality to Twitter, reports FastCompany. Presselite s “Twitter 360” app is an AR overlay on the iPhone camera that geo-locates the direction and distance from where Tweets originate. FastCompany points to the France-based company as the first developer to bring AR to iPhone, releasing the navigation app “Metro Paris Subway” before Apple’s official rollout of AR-capability in its iPhone 3.1 software upgrade. With “Twitter 360,” one of the app’s niftiest features is the ability to geographically tag the origin of Tweets worldwide, showing direction and distance to Tweeters who aren t necessarily within line of sight.
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