Lake Zurich Guide

Ship ahoy! “Zurich's most beautiful place is the lake.” Enjoy the views of the city and lake communities from a new perspective!

Equipped with state-of-the-art features, such as GPS, audio, digital binoculars (VR-Viewer), and optional offline mode, the multi-media guide of Digiboo is your ideal travel companion.

On the boat trip from Zurich to Rapperswil and back, historian Dr. Walther Fuchs presents exclusive facts from the arts, history, and culture on selected monument sights about the communities of Lake Zurich.

You get to know, for example, that in 1697, the former mayor of Zurich and owner of the estate “Traubenberg” in Zollikon, Heinrich Escher, was the first to introduce chocolate to Switzerland; or that the world-famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud visited his patient “Emmy von N” on the Au peninsula; or where exactly in Stäfa the Swiss national drink RIVELLA was invented.
Thanks to the Peak Finder, you can now identify the various mountains of the beautiful Alpine panorama, which, back in 1750, already delighted the German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock on his cruise on Lake Zurich.

The guide also includes practical information on various boat tours, offers a selection of restaurants, provides information on the best swimming places, free WiFi spots, and much more.

KEY FEATURES

-Multimedia
Images, text, and audio information--in German and English--on the selected points of interest.

-On- and Offline Map
The visualization of the POI (points of interest) as GPS-points on Apple Maps enables precise localization on the terrain.
Hyperlinks point from the POI on the map to corresponding texts and images.
Suggested routes to selected POI.
In offline mode, automatic substitute of the online map by a corresponding offline map (avoids roaming costs).

-VR Viewer
Digital Binoculars to display the names of the points of interest (POI) in the smartphone's camera viewfinder (VR Viewer).
This allows you to identify (topographically correct, with accurate and precise information about distances) selected landmarks (buildings and mountains) on the terrain. Swiss-made self-development!

-Semantic Info
To avoid information overkill, the Guide makes the information available at the right time and in the right quantity (semantic info).
When you approach the POI, the corresponding information will be displayed once you reach a predetermined distance.
The information for each attraction will be played automatically as soon as the ship approaches the boat station.
At the same time, you can see the POI as labeled landmarks through the “digital binoculars.”

-On- and Offline Modus
To avoid roaming costs, the application runs completely offline (except GPS-Navi & VR-Mode). In the offline mode, the online map is automatically replaced by a corresponding offline map.