Alter Reality with Augment for Android

There are a lot of different Android apps out there from productivity apps to music players, the selection is vast. Occasionally, I come across an app that’s extremely cool and that’s the case with an app called Augment from AugmenteDev. Augment lets you preview objects & products from the comfort of your home with a simple but futuristic approach.

The first thing you’ll want to do after downloading the app is go to their site and print off a marker. The object you’re trying to view will be bound to the marker (paper) and there are several different sizes you can print off and use. Once you’ve got your marker, pick the object you want to augment in the form of a poster or cube and prepare to be amazed. All you need to do to view your image is press augment, then find the marker in the viewfinder of your phone. You can use posters for a quick view of some premade stuff you can use posters from AllPosters or pre-made cubes from the cubes gallery.

If you want get crazy with it you can do your own poster or your own cube; the cubes are fully customizable as you can set the height, width, and depth along with adding any image to any side of the cube. There are quite a few options like cropping and rotating your custom images, and you can take/save pictures of anything you create. I’m not sure exactly how it works on the technical side of things and knowing would take the fun out of it, so I’m just going to tell you the whole process is done by some sort of funky android magic or narwhals… whichever you prefer.

Augment is by far one of the coolest things we’ve seen in an Android app, and it’s definitely an app that will impress your friends. We had quite a bit of fun playing with it, and never ceased to be amazed when we “augmented” a new image. Augment is a blast to fool around with, and it allows you to do practically anything with an image as you can see by a cubed (and crazy) Gary Busey next to my dog Boo. I highly recommend everyone check out Augment as it’s definitely one of the coolest apps that’s come out for Android. You can grab Augment from the Android market for free.