I really like this app! It’s called WALLIT and when ever you go somewhere they create these “walls” and you can see what other people have posted while they were at the same place you are. You can leave your mark on the places you visit! For example, you go to watch UD play and there is a wall for Wallit users that you can post about what you’re seeing “oh he scored!” Each place only has ONE wall so it doesn’t get all confusing. Read more about what this app can do (and it’s alot) after the jump!
“People have wanted to leave their mark since the beginning of humanity,” says Veysel Berk, creator of the mobile app Wallit. “Now they are going to be able to do that digitally using their smartphones.”
Released Tuesday for iPhone and iTouch, Wallit is hailed by Berk as the world’s first “social augmented reality app.” Like Facebook, it enables you to interact with your friends. Like Twitter, it only lets you write in short 140-character bursts. Like Foursquare, its digital benefits are based on where you go in the real world. But Wallit combines these features — and more — in an entirely new way.
The app is essentially a virtual wall for physical locations. Here’s how it works:
You go somewhere, for example a stadium or the Golden Gate Bridge. You view the the place through your smartphone camera screen, as if taking a photo. But with Wallit, a digital augmented reality-powered wall appears on the screen next to the landmark to show posts, photos, videos and other “marks” by people there at the same time or before you (see concept shot, above). Then you can add your own mark to the wall for others to see.
Wallit “records the character of places,” Berk says. Most location-based apps actually focus on people, and locations are parameters, albeit highly significant ones. With Wallit, the place itself is actually the core, and people function as parameters.
To ensure a focus on place without neglecting social interaction, the app has some distinctive rules. You can only post to a place if you’re actually there. (You can view a wall from anywhere, however.) You can only upload a media to a wall if it was created at that location. You can request walls, but only Wallit can actually create them — that way, each location has one definitive wall.
Wallit has already created more than 700 walls around the world, including in London, Tokyo, New York and San Francisco. A “radar” function app points you to virtual walls near you. Post with an anonymous Wallit ID, or link Wallit activity to your Facebook or Twitter profiles. When viewing walls at different locations, screen-swipe between walls showing posts by everyone or just people who have linked to existing social profiles. Soon, as content proliferates, Berk says you’ll also be able to see only posts by friends.
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