iPuja vs RODA Projects

Just find a peaceful location, comfortably sit on a couchion, place your iPhone on a stable location and touch the stick in the home screen of the app to be guided into your meditation session introduced by a beatiful chime expressly recorded from a seven metals bowl. In the course of the meditation the passage of time is marked by a bar: should you thereafter turn restless, you may unlock the iPhone and look for how much time is left without the need to stand up or interrupt your meditation. The end of the meditation period is again signaled by three gongs of the bowl, a notification and a vibration, useful in the case the device is in silent mode. Buy once and use forever, differently of other apps: no renewal fee or subscription. Just please consider offering a voluntary Dana for the developer as a form of gratitude for his work for the support of you practice. A practical button offers this option. Notwithstanding the app is especially focused on the Theravadin tradition, the default durations being the ones usually followed in the Forest monasteries of this tradition, followers of other traditions, as well beginners, may specifically adjust them to their present skill or interest. So both morning and evening Pujas may have their duration adjusted, free meditations may be set, relaxing music or Dhamma talks from the iTunes library may be played as a support, and intermittent single gongs may be inserted in the course of the meditation. Moreover meditations may be interrupted in advance by simply nudging the device. Meditation benefits from repetition and iPuja also assists you in that by both saving your sessions on your iCloud™ Calendar so to allow you to follow your progress and hopefully take encouragment from that, as well as allowing you to share them over the social networks in order to take a wholesome pride in your progress. The application also populates the new Mindfulness section of Health-kit with your meditation periods. Given meditation is not enough for a stable spiritual progress, iPuja also introduces the meditator to the teachings of the Buddha by displaying a random Dhammapada verse illustrated by a beautiful picture from the Buddhanet portal at the end of the meditation. Any practice benefits from the presence of others, and iPuja in fact allows to view the location of other meditators on the map with information on their experience and on whether they are presently meditating. The laziest meditators may also become followers of more expert meditators and so receive a notification each time the guide start a meditation with the possibility of joining it. The map also reports the monasteries, and soon also Dhamma centers, being entered by the users with information on how to contact them. Of course Sila, or virtue, is a basic factor for the practice and we encourage you to take the five precepts before starting to seriously meditate, yet iPuja is not yet able to also help you in that too... iPuja has been developed by an experienced meditator for more than 20 years in the Forest tradition of Luang Por Achaan Chah who is using it himself for his daily practice. We do our best to provide a most effective and simple experience, but you are welcome to contact us at info@ipuja.net or on the contact form in our web site http://www.ipuja.net if you would like some features to be added or improved, as well as to review the app on the AppStore to report your experience for the benefit of other meditators. IMPORTANT: the application uses local notifications for playing the timeout gongs even while the device is locked, please check in your settings that they are enabled for the application, should you experience problems. In order to inform other meditators of your location, please also grant the relative authorization.

The products can be laid out and configured by choosing finishes (metal, wood, stones), a large selection of fabrics and other options. You can work in three different environments: - Virtual Environment. Here you can configure the elements in a neutral space (possibly with the help of a grid and a guide on the virtual floor) looking at the scene with a perspective projection or with an orthographic view from above. - Augmented Reality. Through your camera, you can see and “almost touch” the elements placed in the real environment, e.g. your garden. You can also “pause” the scene and continue your configuration on the still background. - Augmented Photo. Here you can restore “paused” scenes (saved in Augmented Reality) and continue their configuration any time (you can also work on scenes shared by other users, provided that device on which they have been saved had a compatible size with yours). Scenes can be saved any environments and restored any time, also in a different environment. For example, scenes configured and saved in Augmented Reality can be restored in the Virtual Environment, preserving the elements’ layout in space and their configuration. You can share your scenes with other users with AiDrop, Mail, etc... . For importing a scene, just touch the received file: the App is automatically launched if necessary, the scene is saved and you will be able to restore it and configure it as with any other scene. You can also share a screenshot of your scene with Mail, Notes, Facebook, Instagram, etc... . In Mail and Notes the picture will have a text description of its elements attached. The App’s features are easily accessible with buttons and gestures (as described in the guide which appears at first launch, or anytime when touching the “?” button on the top right). For example, you can: - chose products by category or by collection; select an element, or more elements at once (in the Virtual Environment); - configure the selected element, or even multiple elements at once (in the Virtual Environment), if they have common options (e.g. the fabrics for chairs and sofas); - move and rotate the selected elements; clone them; align them (in the Virtual Environment); group them (in the Virtual Environment), including at multiple levels (subgroups); - remove an element, all elements or a subset of selected elements (in the Virtual Environment); - change the point of view (in the Virtual Environment), moving one or two fingers for panning, rotating, zooming in and out (similarly, in Augmented Reality, you change the point if view by moving the camera); you can always go back to the initial point of view with a double touch on the screen; - frame the scene for an optimal view (in the Virtual Environment); - save the current scene; - open the "gallery” of your saved (or imported) scenes and select one to restore (scene saved while in “pause” mode are marked with a “pause” symbol; - share your configured scene with other users via AirDrop, Mail and File; - share a screenshot of the scene via Mail, Notes, Facebook, Instagram, etc...; - export a saved scene (in the Virtual Environment) in the “.dae” format, compatible with many 3D Design tools. When Entering Augmented Reality, slowly move your camera until it "maps" the flat surphace where you want to place your furniture (the squared "viewfinder" close up and briefly change its color). Best results are obtained in a well lit environment, after “mapping the surfaces” with the camera for a few seconds from different points. By pressing a button you can visually monitor the mapping status: this helps to better understand where the camera should be aimed for improving it, and deciding when you can start to place your elements. In Settings you can define some behaviours of the App at the next launch, by requesting to: - show the user guide at launch; - remove unused data; - show the grid and/or the guide on the virtual floor; - enable the export in ".dae" format.