You can’t get an Apple Watch until April 24th. But that doesn’t mean you can’t pretend to have its fine metals rubbing your naked wrist right now.
By printing out a tiny piece of paper and downloading an app, a horrible render of the Apple Watch will appear on your wrist like magic.
The instructions are simple: print this PDF and scan the QR code on your iPhone with one of the many QR readers in the App Store. It will prompt you to download a viewfinder “ARWatch” app that does the augmented reality.
It’s not in the App Store, but we tried it and it’s safe to use.
Now take the paper cut out and place it on your wrist. Hold your iPhone’s camera up with the app open, and there you go. An Apple Watch. You can change out the bands by tapping the screen.
Even though it’s clearly fake, the effect works surprisingly well. You can zoom in and move the camera around the little piece of paper while maintaining the 3D look of the Watch. The whole thing is a parlor trick at best and a strange way to imagine owning an Apple Watch at worst.
Unfortunately you can only simulate the cheapest Sport model, not the stainless steel one or the I’m-richer-than-you Edition. Have fun pretending!
Via: A-Watch.Fr
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6 responses to “You can wear a virtual Apple Watch right now”
Seems like a new low in impatience. The only question I have at this point is how much longer beyond the 24th will I have to wait after I preorder on the 10th?
Really hoping it’ll arrive in the mail or at the Store the day of or within a week of. I won’t blow a gasket but what I don’t want to see is shipping times that go weeks beyond launch day.
The cheapest one is the alumnium one, the Sport. The  Watch is made of stainless steel and the  Watch Edition of 18kt rose or yellow gold.
Pretty sweet
Cool, now I don’t have to buy one.
Missing the point folks – gives you an interesting comparison between 38mm and 42mm version – the 42mm looks pretty big on the arm…
The Apple Store app also shows you the actual size of the watch faces, no paper or sketchy app necessary.