My goal this summer was to create an app for publication in the iTunes store, and here we are nearing the end of July and the app is available! I watched the better part of 3 Lynda.com videos and cobbled together a lot of code I found out there on the web. The Apple Developer program, thank goodness, comes with two free emailed Q+A with an Apple guru. I only had to use one of them (saving the other in case something else comes up). So here it is: I created Walk On Wire in homage to Philippe Petit’s famous high-wire walk between the NYC Twin Towers on August 7th, 1974 (he performed this only 20 days before I was born in Albany).
You can download the app for your iphone or ipad. Open it, click and hold to create a pin, telling the app where your walk should start and end. Your virtual high wire will be drawn between your two pins and the view shifts to an aerial perspective.
Part balancing and athletic challenge, part game, part homage to Philippe Petit’s NYC high-wire walk, this app enables anyone to experience what it’s like to perform a high-wire walk without leaving the ground. Just keep one thing in mind: Don’t look down!