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Wikitude is an augmented reality browser that overlays an image captured from your mobile camera with geotagged metadata. Today they’ve updated to version 4, which includes overlays for YouTube, Google Local Search, Twitter, Panoramio, and Booking.com, as well as tools for third parties to create their own overlays. This ties in very nicely with their move to create a standardized markup language for augmented reality data now, while the concept is still young and not overly splintered. Even though there are a bunch of new layers of information to soak in, Wikitude has allowed you to filter which ones are shown at any given time. Wikitude was one of the first apps of its type, and despite the fact that Layar seems to have stolen their thunder, we’re glad to see Wikitude is still improving and growing. Interested in trying it out? Wikitude 4 is available now in the Android Market (an older version is in the iPhone App Store, if you’re into that kind of thing) for free, so go and get your search on.
[via Mobilizy]
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
