Experience Location-Based London History With Streetmuseum
Providing users with a new way to experience history, the London Museum has released Streetmuseum.
The [iPhone] app takes hundreds of images from the Museum of London's collections and overlays them onto their real-life locations. Users can pick a location from a London map or use GPS to locate a nearby image. By holding their phone camera up to the scene, they can see the same site as it appeared years ago, along with the history behind the historical image.
Through mobile apps like Streetmuseum, our cities can now be experienced from a variety of perspectives. Timeshifting reality is now possible. Brands can "hack" our worlds to present useful and interesting information. Designers can create pervasive mobile games that turn life into a game.
[via creativity]
