Zest is one of the first AR social media apps. Zest makes it possible to attach messages and emoji reactions to real-world objects using just your phone.
You can also use Zest to connect with other users by simply pointing your smartphone camera at any object around you.
Zest helps you find and communicate with like-minded people about things in the real world that you find interesting.
Zest can recognize objects of any size. As a Zest user, you can find out what other people have to say about your local post office, university or a popular restaurant dish by simply pointing your phone camera at the object of interest.
Such AR social media apps are quite novel today. In a few years’ time, though, they will be all the rage when AR wearables enter the mass market.
Today, Zest is one of the first social AR apps that makes it technologically possible to identify specific objects in real time and in large quantities — something that’s necessary for the social AR app like Zest to be used in billions of daily interactions between the real world and the people in it.
To make Zest work, our team had to solve a number of complicated technological problems. It took us a year to figure it all out. It’s been a super fun journey, and we are thrilled to share Zest with you.
Technological nuances aside, Zest is built around a simple idea — connecting people by means of messages attached to real-world objects.
Each user can point their smartphone camera at any object they see — a building, billboard, grocery store product or a restaurant dish — and attach a message to it. Other Zest users can also see this message and join the discussion about it by simply pointing their phone cameras at that object.
Zest is your chance to play with the emerging AR technology right this moment using your smartphone.
Give Zest a try, tell your friends, and let us know what you guys think.
With love,
Team Zest
