If you can’t, it is simple and easy. All you need is a smartphone, which doesn’t have to be connected with the internet. You put the phone in your hand horizontally and you start turning around in a circle. When the phone — and you — are facing in the desired direction, the device begins to vibrate. You simply walk on.

The Navibration app is the patented brainchild of a Spanish company of developers, and their work bears the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness quality seal. It is available on Apple Store and Google Play, and soon it will be adapted for other devices besides a smartphone, such as a special walking stick and a watch. These two new products are expected to be launched next year. The walking stick is designed especially for blind people.

If, on the other hand, you already know how to navibrate, there is something else you can learn to do within the Navibration app. The company are planning to provide their users with richer and more exciting experiences when exploring a new place. They have created Navibration Experiences, a social network providing users — usually tourists — with ready-made audio-guided routes that they can follow through the Navibration app. As you progress along the route, you hear stories about the place you are visiting, told by some of the most renowned historical figures of its past.

The London route, for example, is accompanied by stories told by Queen Victoria, one of the longest-lasting and most influential monarchs who ever ruled from London. She tells you about how Big Ben was built, about the House of Lords and the House of Commons, even about London Eye, which, of course, was unheard of in her time. All in all, there are more than 20 London locations you can visit using the Navibration app, while listening to captivating tales of old times.

What is interesting about Navibration Experiences, however, is the fact that those audio routes were and will be created by user themselves. And their efforts do not go for free. The network, based on blockchain technology, ensures that revenues from all routes sold are distributed evenly to the people who worked to create that route. There are five creation stages, and different people are responsible for each of them.

Stage one is the route itinerary. When a user offers a route through a city or town, it is reviewed and if approved by the Navibration community, it is open for text writing, and the creator of the route is eligible for payment. Stage two, the writing of the story itself, is done in a similar way — the best narration is selected, and everyone who contributed is eligible for payment. Stage three is the translation of that text, stage four is the audio recording, in several languages, and the final stage is approval by the Navibration team. Each of the people responsible for any of the five stages receives 20 percent of the user fees. Payment is in the Naibration cryptocurrency, Navicoin.

Navibration plans to prepare more than 50 routes in cities around the world. The network is open for suggestions and creative people are invited to take advantage of this opportunity.

To be allowed to be part of the creative process, you need to have owned at least 500 Navibration tokens in the course of the last 30 days. Also, in order to b paid after each sold route, you need to kepp at least half of the tokens you have received so far.

As Crypto Media announced, Navibration are planning a token pre-sale in October-November 2018, and a public sale in November-December. 120 000 000 NAVI will be on offer, priced at 0.05 USD. The unsold tokens will be burnt, and the sold tokens will be returned if the soft cap of 500 000 USD is not achieved. Anyone who is interested might find these sites useful:

https://www.navibration.com/Navibration-onepager-EN.pdf, https://www.navibration.com/Navibration-whitepaper-EN.pdf, https://www.facebook.com/Navibration/, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPW08n-fzjQbZME1MHAirAQ,

These explain the enterprise in detail and give you an example of the new travelling experience without being chained to the internet.

(fennecus)