Mobile World Congress 2010

February 12th, 2010
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The 2010 Mobile World Congress will be held 15-18 February, in Barcelona Spain.

For four days, this beautiful Mediterranean city will become the place for mobile leaders to gather, collaborate, conduct business and experience VISION IN ACTION.

This year’s Mobile World Congress will include:

  • A world-class thought leadership conference featuring visionary keynotes and action-provoking panel discussions
  • An exhibition with more than 1,300 companies displaying the cutting-edge products and technology that will define the mobile future
  • An Awards ceremony  and industry seminars that highlight the most innovative mobile solutions and initiatives from around the world
  • And most importantly, the planet’s best venue for mobile industry networking, finding business opportunities, and making deals

In 2009, Mobile World Congress hosted approximately 47,000 mobile professionals from 182 countries. More than 50% of these were C-Level executives, and 9,000 of them represented mobile network operators from around the world.  In addition, more than 2,400 members of the press reported from the event, representing more than 1,500 media groups from 76 countries.

If your company wants to be a serious player in the mobile eco-system, you can’t afford to miss the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress. Join us in Barcelona and see VISION IN ACTION!

Preview the agenda!

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Download the Brochure

Highlights from last year’s event

Be a part of Mobile World Congress!

Showcase Applications

The following companies/projects will demonstrate their software in the Mobile AR Showcase:

Would you like to participate?

If you are planning to come to the Mobile Augmented Reality Showcase
@ Mobile World Congress and you have a smartphone, then go to the
Apple AppStore, the Android Market and the Ovi Store and download the
applications from companies mentioned above.

On February 17, don’t forget to bring your business cards, your mobile
handset and your open mind! And maybe an umbrella if it begins to rain.

If you are a provider of an application or service and you would like to
demonstrate as part of the Mobile AR Showcase, there is no cost. We only
request that you help us to populate the Showcase directory of applications
by completing this form (same as button above).

Yelp’s Augmented Reality (for free!) on the iPhone in US

August 28th, 2009
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Because good things doesn’t necessary have to cost money

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:

iPhone release AR in September

July 26th, 2009
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Get, set.. iPhone!

iPhone will let developers to distribute at the appStore Augmented Reality widgets from early September! We’ll never know if this is also because of the public letter though… AND it wont let you use it for marker based augmented reality. Only for “compass + GPS” outdoor applications.

Ah, by the way.. don’t think Flash Player will be installed on iPhones.. Apple is not much interested -at least is what it seems..since they prefer their own product Quicktime (???)-.
We’ll see…

Here’s the first app that should be approved on September.