Lake District Looksee AR

Explore the Lake District in Augmented Reality with the Looksee AR viewer: great for finding places around you & adding interest, knowledge and fun to your adventures.

Looksee AR for the Lake District and Cumbria, England, is an Augmented Reality (AR) viewer used to find places of interest directly on your phone camera's screen and add fun, knowledge and interest to your adventures and tours.

Ideal for both tourists and locals wishing to explore and find out more about their surroundings and beyond: whether by foot, bicycle,car, taxi or Uber!

It's simple to use - you just point and go! It includes a choice of Map or Satellite Image in view and a Search function to help locate things.

Once downloaded no wi-fi or cellular network is necessary, so you can use when out and about in the Lake District, even when there is no or poor signal coverage.

This version, for the Lake District and Cumbria, locates places in and around the Lake District National Park and the wider Cumbrian Area, and includes 13,500 Places of Interest.

It reaches a rectangle stretching to Carlisle at its northern most edge and south to Barrow-in-Furness on the coast. Then west from the coast at Whitehaven to east past Kirkby Stephen in land. An area of over 6,300 km2.

Categories that can be viewed and selected include Tourist Attractions, Hills, Lakes, Parks & Woodlands, Cities, Towns, Suburban Areas, Villages & Hamlets, Cafes, Restaurants, Cafes, Airports, Train & Major Bus Stations, Municipal Buildings, Places of Worship, Historic Sites and Museums & Arts.

Some of the helpful Looksee features include:

• Interactive objects (that you can touch for more information on them)
• Magic EYE (to declutter the visuals and select only objects within)
• 3D Satellite or Map image in view (can select which or disable completely)
• Search menu (with on-screen directional arrow and indicator graphics)
• Filters menu (using which the categories of points of interest you wish to display can be easily filtered out or selected)
• Distance slider (for an interactive depth of view filter up to 10km)
• Zoom (using an on screen pinch to zoom gesture)
• Snap-shot camera (for annotating your photos)
• Video recorder for saving and sharing interesting places on social media (accessed by holding the camera icon for 1 second)
• Radar view of everything around you on map (hold face down)

So please enjoy adding interest to your Lake District outdoor adventures!