Your Head Explodes: iPhone in an iPhone [VIDEO]
December 23rd, 2009 admin
We’ve seen all sorts of augmented reality applications for mobile devices, with varying degrees of usability, but this one, created for Orange Telecom, definitely takes the cake when it comes to originality and craziness. Created by augmented reality specialists Ogmento , the application lets you launch a simulated iPhone on your iPhone screen . You can zoom your virtual iPhone or spin it around, but (here

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