nru: ZAGAT & lastminute.com Android App

This is nru ("near you") from ZAGAT and lastminute.com in Times Square. The augmented reality app finds nearby restaurants, bars, and shops and displays Zagat ratings in a 360 degree first-person view . The app is optimized for the Nexus One and Verizon Droid and works on any Google Android phone like the Motorola Cliq or MyTouch 3G.

More info:
nru site: http://www.zagat.com/nru
Press Release: http://www.zagat.com/About/Index.aspx?menu=PR150
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zagatbuzz/sets/72157618794597527/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• webby
• nominee
• webby awards
• nru
• zagat
• g1
• g2
• lastminute.com
• android
• ion
• htc magic
• restaurants
• t-mobile
• augmented
• compass
• mobile
• mytouch3g
• mytouch
• 3g
• googleio
• io2009
• droid
• motocliq
• motorola
• motorolacliq
• motoblur
• hero

[eggrolls78]

Nice app with a great layout and design but the fact that its limited to Zagat only makes me hesitant about getting it. If you could link it to other sites like Yelp in addition to your own I would be all over this ting. I am a huge yelp fan, so incorporating other review sites would only make this app more popular. Just my 2 cents.

[zagatbuzz]

@eggrolls78 Thanks for your input. It's always important to know how we can make our products better and help our customers!

[pj221]

I downloaded it and it is pretty cool. I am imagining times square in a few years with hundreds of people spinning around with their phones =-P

[zagatbuzz]

@pj221 Great image of Times Square. Maybe it will happen even sooner :)

[b36495]

this is similar to tha layar app

[zagatbuzz]

Similar, except nru provides access to our restaurant ratings and reviews and layar doesn't.

[jedsaidnot]

soo getting this

[mrkiky]

This is pretty sweet! It is an old video so I don't know if you updated already, but a good change would be enabling the camera in 360 mode so you can overlay the red dots on the camera image for true augmented reality.

[Dronkness]

people are gonna think im crazy ahaha

[farestabs]

cool

[stevnx2]

more phone bling! making your friends envious one app at a time