Be There: Yosemite

$0.99, iPad, iPhone

Teaches: geography, science

CTR Rating: 80%

CTR Review

Supplement your trip to Yosemite next summer, with a preview of what you might see, with your choice of ten 360 degree panoramas located in Yosemite Valley. The app uses your iPad or iPhone's internal compass, so you can explore as if looking through a periscope. Embedded hot spots let you learn more about what you're looking at. Each view also has natural sounds to complete the immersive experience. This is the second in the "Be There" series, and Red Hill Studios calls it a "virtual presence" app that uses Red Hill Studio's Panopticon technology. Testers wanted the ability to zoom in or out, to explore as if in 3D space. All in all, this would be a nice supplement to a trip to Yosemite.