Waze now warns you if you go over the speed limit

Adding more functionality to an already useful app, Waze is letting its users know if you're driving over the speed limit. If you use the app to navigate it will use the same visuals as the photo above to let you know if you've exceeded the speed limit. You can automatically set audio warnings if you've hit the limit or you're over it by 5, 10, or 15 percent. As everything else, the speed limit of a particular area is being sourced from its community. The feature is currently available in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad, Tobago, and Uruguay but Waze promises it will be available in other areas soon.

Source: 9to5Mac

Google brings Cardboard SDK to iOS

As the rumours have suggested, Google is bringing its Cardboard SDK to iOS developers. This means, developers of iPhone apps can create apps that will work with Google's virtual reality viewer. The Google Cardboard is a low-cost viewer that lets you slot in your smartphone into the front of the viewer to bring both virtual and augmented reality experiences to you via apps.

Aside from launching the SDK for iOS, Google's also introduced VR view, a feature to let developers include immersive content within apps and websites. It can turn images and videos into 360-degree VR images and videos that can be viewed on the desktop or with a phone attached to a Cardboard viewer. Both the SDK and the tools needed to create VR views are available starting today.

Source: MacRumors

Twitter adds image descriptions to mobile apps

Helping out the more visually impaired, Twitter is introducing image descriptions—also known as alternative text or alt text—into its Android and iOS apps. The social network wants their content to be as accessible to as wide an audience as possible. To enable the feature, head over to the accessibility settings of Twitter app and switch the slider to on for the “compose image descriptions” option. So, the next time you compose a tweet with an image, there’ll be an add description button. The descriptions can be up to 420 characters. For those who are visually impaired, you’ll see these descriptions via the assistive technology on your devices.

Source: Twitter

Samsung brings the Gear VR to a new rollercoaster ride at Six Flags Magic Mountain

Samsung and Six Flags Magic Mountain bring thrill seekers into an entirely different world with the new ride. The tech giant is bringing the Gear VR to the new rollercoaster ride called “The New Revolution Virtual Reality Coaster.” Riders have to wear the Gear VRs while on the rollercoaster while a virtual reality video is shown onscreen. The ride’s speed is 55mph and has the first giant loop in the world that is 45 feet in diameter and 90 feet high. Located at Six Flags Plaza, it has 3,457 feet of twisted steel track you’ll be “racing” in while “saving the planet.”

During the soft launch, Six Flags Magic Mountain’s Season Pass Holders got to see a VR video of a futuristic battlefield in a planet threatened by an alien invasion. Another one of the videos you’ll watch while on the ride is being a co-pilot of a fighter jet that takes off from the edge of a building. Your aircraft will fly through the city and go up, down, and twist along the track. The ride will be officially open to the public on April 21^st.

Source: Samsung | Via: Android Community