Horizon Explorer AR was a maps & navigation app developed by Arrow Software Development. It was removed from Google Play Apr 21, 2024 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Horizon Explorer AR had been downloaded 83 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Horizon Explorer AR was rated 3.98 out of 5 stars, based on 280 ratings.
App Information
Horizon Explorer AR was free to download. The APK download size was 74.56 MB. The last available version was 1.23.0. The last update was on February 26, 2018.
Technical Requirements
Horizon Explorer AR required Android 7.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play February 2018.
Description
Point your camera at a landmark you can see on the horizon (eg. Mountain peak, Road, Lake, Building, Airplane) and see: - Name of the landmark - Distance from you - Altitude (& relative to you) - Map of surrounding area - Nearby towns and cities - Wikipedia info for any landmark with a Wikipedia page - Altitude, destination, flight number, airspeed of any commercial airline plane - Directions to landmark (opens in google maps) - Street view for where you're pointing (opens in google maps)
Or use 3D Map mode: - See terrain and hills laid out in front of you - Move phone to fly around the map - Roadmap / satellite / hybrid - Search & display 3D-maps for anywhere worldwide - Distance, altitude and landmark names - Markers on hill & mountain peaks - Infinite scroll
Horizon Explorer works worldwide, but works best on top of a hill with an unobstructed view of your surroundings. You can drag the horizon line with your finger to line up with the camera if the automatic tracking is not working very well. Or try waving your phone around in the air in a figure 8, then press "align using compass" to calibrate the compass.
Live airplanes: Enable planes from the settings menu, then point at a plane to see the flight number, origin, destination, altitude and current airspeed of any commercial airline plane you can see.
If you are in a tall building, or otherwise not standing on the ground, enable "Tall Building mode" and optionally set your altitude using the slider.
Horizon Explorer will show mountain & hill peak names, lakes or forests, the names & designations of roads, and many buildings.
Wikipedia Information will be displayed for anything that has a Wikipedia article with a location set on the article.
Recent changes: - Fix bug where camera fails to connect / black screen on start. - Upgrade ARCore SDK to 1.14.0. - Fix bug where wikipedia pane didn't always disappear when pointing away from the marker for short articles. - Improve performance when first pointing at Wikipedia marker.
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★★★★★
Works perfect. Loved it. But that would be sp great if you can add the inverse location find option. I mean that user select a location from map and ar presentation shows selected location on screen. But again it is a great app. Thanks a lot
★★★★★
This is pretty cool! Although, I wish it had more features. Like settings
to change the unit measure from meters to miles. Also, it would be nice to
mark a location on the AR map to calculate distances and be share the
points to the Google Maps app to provide directions how to get there. I can
really see Google Maps utilizing this someday. Just saying. Other than
that, it is a great useful tool!
★★☆☆☆
Powerful but a mess. Text is either too tiny or too big. Text collides with other text. AR topographic map that appears when zooming should just take over the screen instead of partially overlaying the camera image because the two aren't compatible. There could be a toggle or transparency slider instead. A find feature might be nice. I was looking for a peak which should have been in view but couldn't find it.
★★☆☆☆
Difficult to use. Display on screen does not match the images in the description. The description shows the word distance and the word altitude. I see something like a ruler laying at a 45-degree angle that might indicate distance and there's some kind of vertical bar that might indicate altitude. But the distance is definitely wrong I pointed at a house across the street that's a hundred fifty feet away and its reporting less than 70. There is a half circle at the bottom of the screen that I have no idea what it's supposed to do. There's also a yellow blotch that sort of floats around on the screen but no description of what it's supposed to do sometimes a strawberry like red icon pops up and floats around I have no idea what that indicates.
Technologies used by Horizon Explorer AR
Horizon Explorer AR is requesting 8 permissions and is using 5 libraries.
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