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Video: Hands on with Layar, the Mobile Augmented Reality Browser, for Android

Categories: Android, Applications
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, June 18th, 2009 at 10:05 AM

Two days ago I told you about Layar, an application developed by SPRXmobile that claims to be the world’s first Mobile Augmented Reality Browser, and today it looks like Thomas Ricker from Engadget, who just purchased a house in Amsterdam (congratulations by the way), was lucky enough to score a hands on demo:

Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, who was also in the video, has confirmed that the application will come to the Apple iPhone 3G S, and that partnerships with companies from the USA, Germany and UK will will be announced throughout this year. If all this application needs to work is GPS and a compass, can we pretty please get this running on S60?

Update: Raimo van der Klein of SPRXmobile just sent me this tweet after he read this blog post:

Looks like Layar will be coming to Symbian in a few months, hopefully! Thanks Raimo!

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.