A new iPhone app created by the Museum of London called StreetMuseum allows iPhone users who happen to be walking around downtown London to see the world in real time with old photographs overlayed onto street corners and other locations.
From StreetMuseum's website:
"Select a destination from our London map or use your GPS to locate an image near you. Hold your camera up to the present day street scene and see the same London location appear on your screen, offering you a window through time. Want to know more? Simply tap the information button for historical facts."
As cool as it would be to look into the distant past roaming around New York City, I think it would be really interesting to market this app to movie buffs and location scouts. Instead of having photos and paintings from the past, you could have stills from movies and overlay them on their actual locations. (Of course you'd probably infringe on all kinds of copyright, but the idea seems pretty cool.) It'd be much like some of the entries over at the Scouting NY blog showing locations in older movies and how they look today:
For those of you unfamiliar with augmented reality apps on the iPhone, here's a quick video of a subway app called Nearest Tube showing how it works:
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