The new Yelp application on the iPhone 3GS has an awesome Easter egg: Augmented Reality. Iβve been really looking forward to trying this out, but note you do need to have an iPhone 3GS for this to work right now. Once you download the app to your iPhone 3GS, you need to open Yelp and shake it a bit ( Iβve heard 3 times, but it took like 5 for mine to work ) until a message about Monocle being activated pops up. Then youβll see the βMonocleβ button on the top right; hit it and youβll see a camera view with restaurants and other stuff with reviews shown in little tabs overlaying the camera view like in the pictures.
Unfortunately my iPhoneβs compass doesnβt seem to be very accurate. I did the βfigure 8β thing a couple times, and it helps for a bit, but my iPhone seems to βdriftβ off actual North after a couple seconds. Iβm inside, so perhaps with a good GPS fix itβll be more accurate. Iβm still really happy with this surprise from the folks at Yelp, it makes this great app even better.