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The iPhone app is a different way of presenting location information that is already available - instead of presenting an abstraction of the current reality, the app leverages unique algorithms (see right) to encourage the user to explore their immediate surroundings with ease. This presentation model has the potential for becoming useful in a world with a growing urban population and a growing group of travelers.
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Figure 1: Wandr’s algorithm discovers all the buildings that the user can see by calculating what walls are in the line of sight.
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Figure 2: The use of the phone’s compass (magnetometer), the system is able to search for buildings with greater accuracy.
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Figure 3: Using a public database of building data, the system is able to return an answer back to the user in less than a second.
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