Way cool: No need to upload a photo — just open the Seek camera, point it at a plant, insect or other wildlife, and the app tells you what you are looking at, maybe.
Instantly ID wild life in real time using your phone
No need to upload a photo — just open the Seek camera, point it at a plant, insect or other wildlife, and the app tells you what you are looking at, maybe.
On April 5, in conjunction with the release of the Our Planet series by Netflix, iNaturalist released a new version of Seek by iNaturalist. To heed David Attenborough’s call to action in Our Planet to protect biodiversity, we need to understand what’s here and what we might lose. Seek by iNaturalist unlocks curiosity about the natural world by giving speedy identifications with computer vision and challenging you to earn badges for finding species new-to-you . . .
This on-screen identification is tied to the tree of life, and guides you towards taking a more identifiable photo by getting more specific as you fill the frame and get the right angle or features. When the app narrows it down to species, it prompts you to take a picture, which earns you a badge and unlocks more information about the species. This “augmented reality” view of the world makes it easy to explore and interpret the natural world around you all while guiding you to take more identifiable photos. Seek can’t always identify things to species (it’s still learning…), but it aims to provide the most precise correct name it can.
No need to upload a photo — just open the Seek camera, point it at a plant, insect or other wildlife, and the app tells you what you are looking at, maybe.
On April 5, in conjunction with the release of the Our Planet series by Netflix, iNaturalist released a new version of Seek by iNaturalist. To heed David Attenborough’s call to action in Our Planet to protect biodiversity, we need to understand what’s here and what we might lose. Seek by iNaturalist unlocks curiosity about the natural world by giving speedy identifications with computer vision and challenging you to earn badges for finding species new-to-you . . .
This on-screen identification is tied to the tree of life, and guides you towards taking a more identifiable photo by getting more specific as you fill the frame and get the right angle or features. When the app narrows it down to species, it prompts you to take a picture, which earns you a badge and unlocks more information about the species. This “augmented reality” view of the world makes it easy to explore and interpret the natural world around you all while guiding you to take more identifiable photos. Seek can’t always identify things to species (it’s still learning…), but it aims to provide the most precise correct name it can.
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The amount of nature identifiable using Seek is tied to named observations uploaded to the iNaturalist app.
Seek is freely available on both iOS and Android
Seek is currently translated into 7 languages: English, Spanish, Hindi, Chinese, Portuguese, German, and French.
This major update to Seek was made possible with support from WWF and the Our Planet series on Netflix. Seek is created by iNaturalist, which is a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society.