MTS launches new project in Russia "Virtual History" based on "augmented reality"

OJSC "Mobile TeleSystems" (MTS operator) has announced the launch of the federal Russian innovation project "Virtual History" technology based "augmented reality" that allows for the mobile device, you can see the look of cities in a historical perspective. Residents and guests of Moscow, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnodar, Yaroslavl, Barrow, Tomsk, Irkutsk and Vladivostok are on the screens of their mobile phones or tablets to see how looked sights and streets of the city many years ago, and view archival images of buildings that not survived or were rebuilt.

The project is based on the MTS Historypin free service for Symbian operating system, iOS, Android or Windows Phone. The application automatically detects the user's location, and invites him to check out the old photos next to it historical sites and the information on them, or use of augmented reality - point a camera at a building or a street to see the archive image on top of the modern type (photos, you can adjust the transparency of a finger across the screen ). For the convenience of installation on the central bus stops and close to the city's historical sites involved in the project has specific information modules with QR-code by reading that you can go to the virtual tour. OpenCards archival photographs and accompanying historical references to them is made ​​with the participation of the project partners. For example, in Moscow "virtual history" Donate "Moscow, which has no" and publication of "Moscow News". A similar project is based on the application Historypin MTS Group has implemented in Ukraine, currently in the database project - about 100 photos, and other information about the various buildings, monuments, museums, streets, squares and even caves and dungeons throughout the country. In Russia, the pilot launch "Virtual History" was held in Irkutsk in October 2012. The total number of users of the project in Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Irkutsk has exceeded 50 000.