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Popular augmented reality browser Wikitude has been updated with several handy features, including the ability to scan your money and instantly get exchange rates. Yup, you can test it out with your dollars and euros and see how much they’re worth today. Alongside the app update — which BTW is now in version 7.5 —…
Wikitude, which is one of the Augmented Reality pioneers, wants to bring the technology to even more users. Their new solution, called “AR window,” enables any mobile webpage to include Augmented Reality content. According to the press release we got, using this technology mobile web pages will be able to open up smartphone’s camera view…
Wikitude is going beyond “basic” augmented reality and is including games to the mix as part of version 7.0 of its platform. As a result, developers utilizing Wikitude’s ARchitect Engine, will be able to make AR-based games that put digital characters around player’s surrounding. And already, there are 3 titles that take advantage of this…
Wikitude announced that it will support the newly unveiled BlackBerry 10, which may or may not help RIM survive the ever competitive mobile landscape. In other words — and as Wikitude likes to emphasize — their Augmented Reality platform will be first of its kind on this new OS. Wikitude for BlackBerry 10 will give…
Wikitude unveiled new SDK based on its ARchitect Engine, allowing developers to integrate augmented reality experiences into their apps using JavaScript. Actually, the whole ARchitect Engine is made as a JavaScript framework that can be embedded in an HTML web view which sits atop the Wikitude camera view and enables developers to control the objects…
After Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Symbian – Wikitude is bringing its augmented reality app to Windows Phone users, allowing them to explore their surroundings while on the go. The application has been customized to enable the panorama user interface, which apparently differentiates the experience on Microsoft’s platform. The WP version also provides category containers such…
When RIM launched their OS 7 devices over the summer, one of the key features was augmented reality support, thanks to a magnetic compass built into their new phones and a graphical overlay API on the software side. Wikitude was the showcased partner for this tech, but at DevCon Asia, they’ve announced a fresh version…
I’m a big fan of augmented reality. Apps like Layar, junaio and Wikitude help users discover new places either at their home town or when they travel. Up until this point none of the AR apps was optimized for Honeycomb tablets (as far as I know, that is). Now Wikitude launched a new version of…