Augmented Reality is here to stay. There are so many apps that allows the users to explore places for real. Here are some of the apps that allows you to do just that.

Pokémon Go
Last year you might have seen many people bumping into each other with their heads down on the phone. In case you thought something was wrong with them, worry not! They were just playing Pokémon Go. The 90’s game was recently revived with a new look app that allowed people to participate in a global scavenger hunt. More than 45 million players downloaded and played the game in which you catch monsters and learn about the places as you move along.

Field Trip
Field Trip app allows you to find attractive locations around the place you are. it uses many apps such as Thrillist, Zagat and Eater to bring you interesting places that are around your current location. The app can also send alerts whenever you are near any notable spots when you go out. Available for both Android and iOS, this app is like having your personal tour expert at hand.

Spyglass
Spyglass allows users to have multiple tools such as a compass, gyrocompass, star tracker, sextant, star tracker and altimeter. You can also use range finder to find out the exact distance of a landmark that is located far away.

Zombies, Run!
In Zombies, Run! you get to select your route and then run. Not just run but run to save your life. The game is realistic and lets you even listen to characters in the game that keep babbling about the apocalypse. Collect the items that are present in-game and watch the dead rise as you move along in the game.

Google Translate
One of the challenges people face while travelling is understanding various languages. More than the language, the option to understand street signs and boards becomes an important requirement. Google Translate can do just that. Just point your camera at the text or the photo and Google will translate it for you.

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Looking at the map of Remote Oceania which is a region containing Hawaii, New Zealand, French Polynesia and Micronesia you might wonder how people manage to settle on places like this. They are located so far apart from the landmass and they are so far from each other too. Although these are some of the last places that human race has populated, it is still surprising that people managed to get there.

Looking at various evidences such as archaeological, anthropological, genetic as well as linguistic evidence suggests that people have reached there as early as 3400 years ago. There is not a clear estimate of which island was colonised first, it is still remains under debate as to where it originated from and what kind of strategies were used.

There is no concrete information on how people could have sailed to these locations due to the limited navigational option available those days. Settling in remote places such as these must have required many trips across thousands of kilometres of the sea. There is no idea on how the boat technology was those years and what was used the early settlers to get to these islands.

Another intriguing factor is how the colonisation process happened after a hiatus of about 2000 years. Because, after some time there was a pause in expansion leading to some expansions not happening. During this pause, somewhere between the 1,100 and 800 BP only Tahiti, Rapa Nui and Hawaii were occupied.

After conducting many voyage simulations and trajectories some concepts were theorized. The reason for the 2000 year pause in simulation raised from the fact that the area from Samoa has an increasing distance between two islands. To get to these locations, one has to travel against the wind which would have made it very difficult.

In future, these researches will continue to analyse on the colonization and how these remote islands were occupied.