TweetReality: The first app to put Twitter into the AR space

If everyone needs to wear glasses and combine reality with digital, what will the future social media platform look like? This is a question raised by iOS developer Oscar Falmer when developing the TweetReality app. TweetReality is the first app that puts Twitter into the AR space. It mixes Twitter with the surrounding environment and puts tweets in the floating box. User interaction. Just like the holographic projection used by Iron Man Tony Stark, put the content of the screen in front of the user. Currently, this app is on the Apple App Store.

The TweetReality app is based on Apple ARKit and is currently available for iPhone and iPad. With an iPhone or iPad camera, TweetReality can place tweets in a 3D grid and arrange them into a sphere shape. Tweets will become larger when clicked, and options such as "like" and "retweet" will also appear. In addition, at the edge of the tweet grid, TweetReality provides the option to navigate to more tweets, allowing users to write tweets, search, page flips, refresh or access notifications. The most interesting thing is to open a tweet to see the reply, and the way to slide up and down is much like the future interaction.

The app developer OscarFalmer said: "My goal is to innovate the future, mainly considering new glasses that we might wear in the future. What is the best interface for human interaction, design and coding in 3D space? It takes a lot of research."

In fact, for real Twitter people, the TweetReality app just provides a novel way that can't be used everyday. After all, there are many elements on the information flow products like Twitter and Weibo, such as intensive articles and pictures, so it is not suitable for browsing with AR. However, in the future, our vision will not necessarily be limited to the screen of mobile phones. If smart glasses can be popularized, the design and interaction of game software will also change.

Currently, TweetReality is a free iOS app that supports ARKit-compatible iOS 11 or higher, including iPhone 6s/SE/7/8/X and the plus version of these models and the latest iPad Pro.