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About freaking time: Mobilizy proposes an open standard for augmented reality data

By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 at 5:46 AM

Augmented reality applications like Layar or Wikitude are awesome, but they are inherently flawed since all the effort put forth at creating data for one particular application can’t be read in a different application. Mobilizy, creator of the first augmented reality application for mobile phones known as Wikitude, is proposing to the augmented reality consortium (didn’t even know such a thing existed) that ARML (augmented reality markup language) be the standard every augmented reality company should use to represent their data. ARML is simply an extension to KML (keyhole markup language) which is already widely used for location based services. This could not have come any sooner. For augmented reality to flourish, there should be a million billion trillion augmented reality viewers and data sources, versus a tight coalition of companies dominating the space. Bravo to Mobilizy for getting the ball rolling, I’m hoping that Layar CEO Raimo van der Klein joins the bandwagon.

[Via: Read Write Web, Mobilizy]

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Stefan Constantinescu

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.

  • Raimo

    Hi,

    We are part of the AR Consortium. I guess within the consortium we will discuss this. When it is ‘accepted’ by the consortium we will have a look how and when we can support it..