iPhone gets Google Goggles-esque visual hunt in oMoby app

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iPhone users, your day of visual search reckoning has arrived! While Android users have been prancing around townspeople with the Google Goggles app primed to identify objects by snapping a quick picture, the iPhone camp has been left without a viable visual search app to call their own. That is, until today. A new iPhone app called oMoby has hit the AppStore as a non-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) alternative that allows you to get quick product and locating selective information. The app makes it quick and easy to find more selective information on everything from books to DVDs to points of interest in your town. And, it’s free people.

Not familiar spirit with “visual hunt?” That’s mulct, it’s not hard to understand. Think of visual search apps like Google Goggles and oMoby as barcode scanning apps that, wellspring, father’t motivation any barcodes. Just like barcode electronic scanner, you can take a pic of an object with your smartphone’s photographic camera and quickly get information related to that merchandise. In oMoby’s cause, you don’t motivation any barcodes, and it’ll even give you information on fairly wellspring-known landmarks – just centering a pic of an object or turning point and the app volition scour the internets for relevant information.

The oMoby app deeds best when tasked with retail packaging like books or DVDs. Objects that deficiency any retail promotional material but boast highly visible branding or trademarks (a tin of Coca genus Cola or a film poster) will also work well with oMoby. It’ll also save your visual search story, so you tin peruse previous searches at volition. It goes without saying that oMoby should really shine when your out and about on your thrice-daily shopping excursions. Just know that things like cars or place – objects without any retail promotional material to identify them by – aren’t leaving to reappearance the most accurate results.

oMoby is available as a free download in the AppStore, so you’re not leaving to lose anything by trying it out. Plus, you tin finally shut all your Android-wielding friends up with your very own visual search app. Now, if only you could show them how well your non-jailbroken iPhone handles multi-tasking …

Text search is soo 2008. Typing to find information is out, visual- and motion-based search is the new Pink Copper Negro Fuscia.

oMoby (FREE) [iTunes link]

oMoby (FREE) [iTunes link]

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