If you have ever done any traveling in a foreign country, you know how difficult it can be to read or understand all the signs or writings you come across. You are going to love what Quest Visual has come up with.
We already have a fair amount of great translation applications out. Some will take spoken words and translate them into the desired language, others will take what you type in and translate it on screen and even speak it out loud. None of these solutions have what Word Lens has. Quest Visual has taken the idea of language translation and augmented reality to make reading a sign, a menu, or anything else that you can’t read and make it simple. All you do is point your camera at it and the application will translate it right on your screen instantly.
The app is currently only available for the iPhone through the AppStore. It’s free to pick up but the language packs cost $4.99 each. Quest Visual has 2 packs available right now, English – Spanish and Spanish – English. They have big plans to add many more languages as well as bring it cross platform to Android, WindowsPhone 7 and Blackberry.
Take a look at one of the videos from their website demonstrating how amazing and instant this software is.
Thanks for the heads up on this application Nate.
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This is a truly killer app! I can’t wait for this to arrive on the android platform. If there is any way to plug-in with google translate, we should be in for some really hysterical sign translations!
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Wow, thanks for telling me about an iPhone only app that I’ve known about for months already. You couldve at least brought some good new like “Word Lens comes to Android” but no. Just an iPhone app on ANDROIDSPIN.COM! Thanks for getting our hopes up, dick!
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I think this app will be great for the Android but the guy who wrote this needed to reword this. Like he should had change “app coming to Android” to “iPhone app eventually coming to the Android”. He should had said within the first few sentences that this app is only on the iPhone and coming to the Android down the road, no word yet on when this will happen.
The guy who wrote this made a simple writers mistake but completely messed up in one of the worst ways.
BTW I wouldn’t mind writing for this site for some $
I think, to be fair, Stormy clearly said ‘coming to Android’ in the title. If it was already on Android – why would he have written ‘coming to Android’.
I think the problem is people not reading.
“Coming” means you have a date – there is no date. It could be years from now for all we know. When people see that they expect NOW – so this is basically a useless article, repeating what everybody knew two months ago. Its for the IPad and may, if you are lucky, one day in a blue moon appear on Android.
Im looking forward to the arrival of this app. watch it in action on an ipad, great app. Just have to wait that’s all.