Interesting.
Two-three years ago I had such idea but in a Pokemon-style called ReademonGO = Read them on Go
The main idea was/is for adding attractive ways to the education system with achievement badges
People as constant learners can gather achievement badges during their lifetime
a gif of what this looks like would be nice..
How does the resolution compare to just reading the article on a typical modern computer monitor?
It really depends on the smartphone you have. It's simply opening the article inside a web browser embedded in the app.
My humble iphone6 ain’t got the “features” required for this app
How are you identifying the object in the image?
It's taking your location and heading and using lat/long coordinates returned by the Wikipedia API to try to figure out where those articles are in relation to you.
What is heading? Can out phone identify the orientation too? What if there are two "famous" buildings beside each other? How can you differentiate without actually identifying the image?