Augmented Reality Hits USA with Yelp

**Cody Overcash** · 08-27-2009, 03:24 PM

No need to be jealous of international iPhone 3GS users in Paris and London, augmented reality has made it state side! Yelp hid an easter egg in their application update released yesterday that is able to activate their augmented reality or "Monocle" mode. Sadly this appears to only be for the iPhone 3GS, not for iPhone 3G or 2G users.

Download Yelp off the App Store (free), shake your iPhone 3GS 3 times (in my case repeatedly really hard) and eventually you will get a nice notice informing you that

Awesome. The augmented reality floodgates have opened!

Update: Been playing with this a bit now, its difficult to use. All the little places to tap on shake around a lot. Maybe my hand shakes to much. Either way it is really cool but needs to be updated with better implementation.

**Melech518** · 08-27-2009, 03:26 PM

Sweet!!!

**360psp** · 08-27-2009, 03:30 PM

Ok this is had to do nothing showed up 4 me,
wait is this only for iphone 3GS?

**blkcadi** · 08-27-2009, 03:33 PM

So cool

**Cody Overcash** · 08-27-2009, 03:33 PM

just shake it alot, its supposed to be three shakes but I had to shake endlessly

**blkcadi** · 08-27-2009, 03:36 PM

^yeah right, thats what you guys always say.
more than 3 times and your doing more than trying to get a eater egg, lmao

**smuggler** · 08-27-2009, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by 360psp

Ok this is had to do nothing showed up 4 me,
wait is this only for iphone 3GS?

did you read the article?

**360psp** · 08-27-2009, 03:42 PM

Is this only for iphone 3GS or 3G also???

**StealthBravo** · 08-27-2009, 03:43 PM

only 3GS

**Melech518** · 08-27-2009, 03:50 PM

ya, it was sweet until i shook my phone so hard i threw it across the room haha...damn thing still isnt popping up. Did someone steal my 3gs and replace it with a 3g????

**smuggler** · 08-27-2009, 03:53 PM

i shook really, really hard, and instead of monocle popping up, i felt a strange but euphoric sensation in my private area, and then monocle popped up

**StealthBravo** · 08-27-2009, 03:56 PM

lmao. It's cool but not easy to use

**rryyddeerr** · 08-27-2009, 04:01 PM

really gotta shake the crap out of it for like ten seconds

**smuggler** · 08-27-2009, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by 360psp

Is this only for iphone 3GS or 3G also???

have you read the part in the article where it specifically explains it only works for the 3gs?

**c0mpguru** · 08-27-2009, 04:12 PM

I keep shaking and shaking my 3GS but it's not popping up! I'm afraid to shake it any more because I feel I'm gonna toss my phone.

**Dub** · 08-27-2009, 04:15 PM

Try shaking more front to back, less side to side.

**blkcadi** · 08-27-2009, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by smuggler

i shook really, really hard, and instead of monocle popping up, i felt a strange but euphoric sensation in my private area, and then monocle popped up

Originally Posted by blkcadi

^yeah right, thats what you guys always say.
more than 3 times and your doing more than trying to get a eater egg, lmao

See, that's what I'm sayin'

**lgreenberg** · 08-27-2009, 04:16 PM

can not get it to work.

**Jahooba** · 08-27-2009, 04:43 PM

Originally Posted by c0mpguru

I keep shaking and shaking my 3GS but it's not popping up! I'm afraid to shake it any more because I feel I'm gonna toss my phone.

Try yelling "Shake, shake, shake!" when you do it. Someone told me that worked for him.

**lgreenberg** · 08-27-2009, 04:44 PM

I got it.

Hold it vertically.

Shake 3 times HARD.

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