WorkSnug is an Augmented Reality application for the iPhone 3GS. It connects mobile workers to the nearest and best places to work.
We’ve personally reviewed hundreds of places to work and offer personal observations, a guide to power provision, atmosphere, noise levels and even the quality of the coffee.
It’s free!
This concept allows to you to experience immersion and effortless navigation in an Augmented Reality environment. New types of interactions involving near-to-eye displays, gaze direction tracking, 3D audio, 3D video, gesture and touch. Through these new types of social linkages people will be connected in innovative ways between the physical and digital worlds.
Loading ...Vodafone Netherlands has stepped up the potential of the medium, by launching a modern day variant of the playground classic ‘tag’ for the Google/OHA (Open Handset Alliance) Android platform.
Vodafone introduced a game where players can ‘tag’ each other using the HTC Magic phone via the camera and a specialised app.
The Go Tag app allowed players to ‘tag’ their rivals by using image recognition technology to identify the target’s shirt colour when a picture was taken.
Devices like the Android HTC Magic and the iPhone 3GS are expected to pave the way for augmented reality applications, mainly because these devices are equipped with a digital compass that complements the GPS functions on the handsets.
geoPaste is an Augmented Reality (AR) application for creating, publishing, viewing and interacting with digital content geo pasted into the real world.
geoPaste content can include drawings, background images and audio as well as providing links to web site pages, phone numbers, sms, email addresses and Google Maps™ links.
geoPaste can be used both publicly and privately for many purposes including geo located virtual billboards, commercial labelling, digital graffiti, field work, notes, reminders, social commentary, even as an alternative to obscure barcodes.
geoPaste is AR publishing for everybody.
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.
* * 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…
Loading ...Yelp’s portal is offering a FREE AR app to retrieve information layers on your iPhone 3Gs (US only). Layar, Android’s AR browser is also about to release their application for iPhone.
If you are interested to know who was the first one at the AppStore, they were Mètro Paris and London Bus (you have to pay for them).
Co-founder Antoine Morcos:
Basically, with this application, you are able to see all the metro and bus stations around you (<1km), and also a lot of Points of Interest (Restaurants, etc.) via Augmented Reality, thanks to the camera.
This Yelp-AR-surprise tells us that Augmented Reality Mobile Browsers show is just beginning!
Anyone knows Google’s plans? Are they just sitting there watching the wheels go round and round?
Here you can see Yelp’s AR Browser in motion:
Today a bird told us that iPhone wont allow access to live video on the API’s 3.1. That means that there wont be chances to make a Marker Augmented Reality app for iPhone -for now-.
For now, AR community’s iPhone developers will have to concentrate their forces into browsers like Layar or Wikitude , based on compass & gyro to create the AR effect.
So.. stop dreaming about pet jumping around a marker… or stuff like that.
We all hope that Apple start thinking forward again as always did…
PRESS RELEASE: SALZBURG, Austria: AUGUST 26TH 2009. Mobilizy GmbH introduces WIKITUDE 3 for the Android OS and relaunches a completely new Wikitude.me geo-tagging platform. WIKITUDE 3 is the latest release of the Wikitude World Browser, the premiere mobile AR application for Android, which displays location-based, geo-specific content in a real-time augmented reality camera view on a smart-phone using GPS & gravimetric (compass) sensors.
WIKITUDE 3 is the latest release of the Wikitude World Browser, which presents the user with data about their surroundings, nearby landmarks, and other points of interest by overlaying information on the camera-view of a smartphone bringing information from the internet into context with the real-world. The Mobilizy development team has listened to it’s users and implemented several new features to improve and enhance the user experience within WIKITUDE 3. New features include:
* Full Integration with the Wikitude.me user-generated, geo-tagging platform;
* An enhanced User Interface (UI) which tightly aligns with the UI in the forthcoming iPhone version of the Wikitude World Browser;
* Improved methods to enhance perspective and depth of perception of POIs (Smaller POIs indicate further distance, larger POIs indicate close proximity);
* The search and viewing-distance for POIs can be regulated by the user with a sleek slider bar;
* New & Improved filter options allow end-users to choose which content overlays and POI categories are displayed;
* Improved methods for locating POIs through search terms;
* An improved radar-overlay displaying the user’s current viewing direction and POIs within a specified radius;
* An entirely new “Beam-Me” feature which tele-ports the user to a pre-defined geo-location, allowing the user to experience a specified geo-data overlay;
Currently, WIKITUDE World Browser 3.0 offers data overlay sources from Wikipedia, *Qype and user-generated content from Mobilizy’s Wikitude.me (www.wikitude.me)
Mobilizy GmbH has partnered with Netociety Ltd., a specialist in enterprise social software, to develop an enhanced geo-tagging experience that empowers individuals with the tools to create POIs and location-specific, hyper-linked digital content which can be viewed through the WIKITUDE World Browser. According to Markus Tripp, the project manager of Wikitude, “Wikitude.me is the first platform which allows individuals to actively contribute to augmented reality. This is an amazing and huge step forward in the AR industry!”
Wikitude.me provides an open, easy-to-use, free mobile information platform for anybody who wants to access or provide location based and situation-specific information or services via mobile phones. Basically, Wikitude.me can be understood as a platform which encourages community-driven content creation to which anybody can contribute freely, very similar to the philosophy of Wikipedia, but for mobile augmented reality. With regards to intellectual property, Wiktude.me is implemented under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License.
To get started with Wikitude.me platform users can login through existing 3rd party accounts such as Yahoo!, Google, Twitter and Facebook. The ability to add points of interest and “geo-tag the world” is done through any Internet-enabled device, such as a netbook, laptop, desktop or a smartphone like the Apple iPhone, Nokia N97 and the Android handsets which are available today. For each point of interest there is a title, description (250 chars), category, language, and link to a URL. Each POI that is geo-tagged on the Wikitude.me platform is also cross-posted on Twitter ( http://twitter.com/wikitude_me ) to inform the global Wikitude community of the creation of fresh geo-content.
Mobilizy GmbH believes that the future of mobile augmented reality (Mobile AR) literally rests in the hands of the users. Our team can develop the infrastructure for Mobile AR experiences such as WIKITUDE 3 and platforms like Wikitude.me, but ultimately the end users will determine how mobile AR will be shaped. Mobilizy is constantly researching and developing ways to improve the WIKITUDE mobile AR experience by placing the user at the center of our development process
NOTE: POI data created by early-adopters of the beta version of Wikitude.me will be migrated to the new platform early next week.
Mobilizy GmbH is an early pioneer in commercial augmented reality and the creator of the WIKITUDE World Browser, which is the first practical augmented reality (AR) mobile application. Available on Android (Coming soon to iPhone). Mobilizy engages in the research and in-house development of location-based services and augmented (mixed) reality experiences for smartphones. Mobilizy is one of the leading innovators in developing new methods and applications for data acquisition and exchange in the emerging market of augmented reality.
Netociety Ltd. is a UK-Austrian based software development firm helping companies customize, implement and adopt social software, collaboration tools and best practice. Netociety facilitates the development of collaboration systems for engaging with customers, employees and partners. Improvements in innovation, change, marketing, and productivity efforts are focused on.
Loading ...Thanks to the new iPhone release, things like this are coming.
Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone.
Layar is a global application, available for the T-Mobile G1, HTC Magic and other Android phones in all Android Markets. It also comes pre-installed on the Samsung Galaxy in the Netherlands.
By holding the phone in front of you like a camera, information is displayed on top of the camera display view.
For all points of interest which are displayed on the screen, information is shown at the bottom of the screen.
On top of the camera image (displaying reality) Layar adds content layers. Layers are the equivalent of webpages in normal browsers. Just like there are thousands of websites there will be thousands of layers. One can easily switch between layers by selecting another via the menu button, pressing the logobar or by swiping your finger across the screen.
Layar has some cool features which include:
* Unique layer specific icons/markers
* Featured and Popular section
* Search function
* Add layer to favorites
* Map view and list view
* Enhanced AR view
* Accuracy information
* “Take me There” function
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