To download PowerCat Enhanced:
- Search for "layar" in either iPhone's App Store or the Android Market. Download and install Layar when it appears. It's a free app.
- Launch Layar. Click the "layers" button and select "PowerCat Enhanced."
- Learn more about Layar.
Augmented reality: PowerCat Enhanced
Visiting a Kansas State University campus but unfamiliar with the layout? There's an app for that.
The downloadable technology turns a user's iPhone 3GS and above or Android-based smart phones into an interactive map and GPS, showing both information about and directions to locations on the K-State Manhattan, Salina and Olathe campuses. Read more.
How to use it
PowerCat Enhanced users must have either an iPhone 3GS or above or a smart phone running the Android platform. Since the parent program, Layar, requires a phone have a GPS, camera, compass and accelerometer, phones without these components will be unable to correctly utilize the program.
More about Layar and augmented reality
- Augmented Reality and the Layar Reality Browser, from Inside Higher Ed
- Layar Reality Browser website