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Baidu now has an eye in the sky with launch of new flight tracker app

There are 904 airplanes in Chinese airspace right now. One plane just flew near my apartment as its journey from Chengdu to Shanghai nears the end. I know that because I’m playing around with a new plane tracking app – which includes some augmented reality trickery – that came out today, made by Chinese search engine giant Baidu. The app, called Baidu Tianyan (tianyan could be translated as “eye in the sky”), will be familiar to anyone who uses FlightAware, the app that was in the news earlier this year as people sought to understand what on earth happened to the still missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. As with FlightAware, Baidu’s new app is accompanied by a browser-based flight tracker – see here – that does away with some of the slickness of the mobile app.

While the augmented reality aspect of the Baidu Tianyan mobile app is fun (pictured top), it’s actually the least useful part. It’s probably more useful and insightful when used to track flights on a map.: