iPhone Augmented Reality App Helps You Find Car, Monuments, Friends

LocFinder is an augmented reality app that boasts it will always let you see which direction is home or find your car, even if you’re halfway across the world.

LocFinder costs $0.99 on iTunes and while isn’t the first augmented reality app to tackle parking lot amnesia — we recently wrote about Car Finder — it sounds like a compass on steroids.

It has a bevy of features that may end those ping-pong SMS messages to set up a meeting, make stopping to ask for directions a non-issue even when you’re lost in Paris — or let you know exactly how far away you are from Cupertino at all times.

More on what it does with video after the jump…

LocFinder can show  distance and direction to any predefined location on the planet, show your current location and your destination  a 3D-globe or a map and sports an augmented reality compass. LocFinder also lets you choose locations from a preset list of notable monuments, including those in capitals around the world.

On the home front, you can build a personal list  by using your current position or by setting a position on the map, plus you can mail your current location to friends.

Modern day treasure hunters can also make use of the three different input formats for longitude and latitude, copying them from geocache sites — the app’s first (and so far only) review says it works well for this purpose.

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Caveat: designed to make use of the GPS and compass on the iPhone 3GS, developers brainy mode admit the app “works poorly” on an iPod touch and “works partially”  on first gen iPhones — more details here.

Thanks to CoM reader Thomas who tipped us off about it.

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