PRESS RELEASE.
Mobilizy GmbH reveals a preview of it’s augmented reality navigation system, the first fully functional mobile AR navigation system available for the Android platform. Wikitude Drive was developed by the Mobilizy Research & Development group in Salzburg, Austria, to satisfy the curiosity of the developers to see if it was feasible to combine real-time navigation with mobile augmented reality. The result of this quest is Wikitude Drive, a fully-functional, light weight navigational system which overlays point-to-point directions on a camera-view, without the need for maps.
Wikitude Drive boasts the following features:
* * Mobile AR navigation, similar to a heads up display (HUD);
* * Fully functional, map-less navigation;
* * POI 2 POI navigation;
* * Integrated voice commands (additional text-to-speech engine required);
* * World wide navigational data which is accessed in real-time from the internet; o (a mobile internet connection is necessary to access data while in motion)
* * Peer-to-peer navigational functions o Social navigational features will be implemented in future releases
* * Interfaces with existing navigational APIs (for example: NavTeq, Map24, TeleAtlas)
* * Launching for Android and iPhone soon.
ARvertising Note: All these AR browsers (Layar, Wikitude..etc) will get into the REAL THING the day HMD (head mounted displays – lets say “AR sunglasses”..-) will come to stay. Before that, in my opinion, they are not going to give to final users something really useful (you can’t drive watching your phone’s screen for AR directions, sorry).
Maybe the “pedestrian” versions have one point…
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