LiveSight: because we all want bionic vision

Finding your way in a crowd, or in the middle of nowhere, is now much easier and quicker thanks to HERE Maps with LiveSight.

Download HERE Maps

1. Press the Search button on your Nokia Lumia and then tap Vision
2. Scan the QR code
3. Tap on the link when it appears on the screen
4. Install the application from the Windows Phone Store

The world is a vast place; full of different cities, shops, parks, and anything else you can possibly think of. HERE Mapshas always been your best friend when it comes to getting to unfamiliar places, and it’s also helped you find new routes in familiar ones. HERE Maps is your eye in the sky.

Now, those eyes are also fixed on the ground, looking at the world in the exact same way that you do.

Once you’ve updated HERE Maps on your Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8 smartphone, you’ll see the LiveSight incorporated immediately.

HERE Maps will find your position and pin your location on the map, just as normal. You’ll also notice that there’s an additional eye icon next to your location that’s shouting to be tapped. Tap it!

Here’s where the digital world meets the real one.

Venues and points of interest (POI) will start to populate the screen around you and the map will begin to drop away to the bottom of the screen, revealing exactly what you can see in true real-time – delivered via the main camera.

 

If you’re holding the phone perfectly upright you’ll see POIs dart about the screen as you start to move the phone in any direction. If one of these icons is positioned directly in the centre of your screen, you know that the venue or location is directly ahead of you.

Cleverly, by placing your finger or thumb on the middle of the screen and pulling items downwards to the bottom, you’ll start to flick your way through venues that are closer or further away. The nearest icon will fade out at the bottom, leaving the most distant ones on the screen. This is really useful when looking at a cluster of icons and you’re trying to establish which one you want to navigate to.

At any point, of course, you can tap on a POI and see details of its exact location, including address, the phone numbers, photos and reviews. And if you need to, pressing the directions option will guide you there.

The radar at the top of the screen lets you see the position of other places around you, too.

Within the LiveSight view once again, as you begin to lower your phone to around 45 degrees or more, the familiar HERE Map will poke into view at the bottom of your screen. While still maintaining the LiveSight view above, this mix of traditional map and LiveSight really helps you understand where you are in relation to the rest of your local surroundings.

If you prefer to see local POIs in list form, pull up the Placeswindow from below and see what’s around you. It’s from here that you’re also able to choose which categories you want to appear when using LiveSight, too.

While LiveSight helps you to discover many different venues around you, it can also help you to find specific places.

For example, let’s say you get off a train and are looking to meet somebody at a nearby bar, or restaurant. Type that place into the search option in HERE Maps and with the search results on screen, change the map view to ‘LiveSight’ by tapping the icon at the bottom right of the map.

You’ll now see only those results in LiveSight, which makes getting from A-to-B much easier than sifting through many different venues.

LiveSight gives you real-time imagery of the places you’re exploring, or trying to get to. It doesn’t provide you with simulations, or photos that may now be out of date. It’s real-world visuals, right now.

Download HERE Maps today, for free.

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