The most unusual AR apps for smartphones
Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2025 7:26 am
Augmented reality applications are nothing new. Let's remember the same virtual rulers and all sorts of online fitting rooms that allow you to imagine how you would look with a new hairstyle, different clothes, shoes, and even a tattoo. But there are also unusual and even funny applications - we will tell you about them.
Necessary Explosion
Sometimes music evokes unusual associations and strange images in the imagination. The developers of this application decided to visualize the vinyl album SOS by Dutch musicians Necessary Explosion.
For each track, the application draws psychedelic images-associations in augmented reality — they are animated and move differently depending on where you look at them.
iOS
Just a Line
popular topic in AR - drawing. But only here you draw in the air, and the lines turn out to be three-dimensional.
You can draw something right in front of you, and then admire your lithuania number data own creativity "from afar", walk around the drawing and examine it from all sides, and sometimes correct the final result.
Android | iOS
Mind Map AR
Starry sky maps in AR are already commonplace. What about a 3D mind map? Our brains are constantly building connections between thoughts and ideas, and Mind Map AR helps us understand all this and even generate new ideas.
The app allows you to literally wander around your thoughts and consider them from all sides – they say this helps generate brilliant ideas.
Android
Mondly AR
A special version of the Mondly app for learning foreign languages. If learning languages is too boring for you, you can try doing it in augmented reality, especially since the app offers 33 languages to choose from.
Find a surface where a virtual teacher will be located and give you an individual lesson. It might be more fun, at least.
Necessary Explosion
Sometimes music evokes unusual associations and strange images in the imagination. The developers of this application decided to visualize the vinyl album SOS by Dutch musicians Necessary Explosion.
For each track, the application draws psychedelic images-associations in augmented reality — they are animated and move differently depending on where you look at them.
iOS
Just a Line
popular topic in AR - drawing. But only here you draw in the air, and the lines turn out to be three-dimensional.
You can draw something right in front of you, and then admire your lithuania number data own creativity "from afar", walk around the drawing and examine it from all sides, and sometimes correct the final result.
Android | iOS
Mind Map AR
Starry sky maps in AR are already commonplace. What about a 3D mind map? Our brains are constantly building connections between thoughts and ideas, and Mind Map AR helps us understand all this and even generate new ideas.
The app allows you to literally wander around your thoughts and consider them from all sides – they say this helps generate brilliant ideas.
Android
Mondly AR
A special version of the Mondly app for learning foreign languages. If learning languages is too boring for you, you can try doing it in augmented reality, especially since the app offers 33 languages to choose from.
Find a surface where a virtual teacher will be located and give you an individual lesson. It might be more fun, at least.