Augmented reality technology and service provider Total Immersion announced that it has secured $5.5 million in a funding round led by Intel Capital joined by existing investors Partech, iSource and Elaia Partners. The company will use the new money to further develop its D’Fusion platform and to drive new usage of augmented reality for end-users.…
Nick Cannon’s Celebrity High magazine uses augmented reality, powered by junaio
Nick Cannon’s Celebrity High Magazine has started integrating augmented reality technology into every monthly issue. Readers have to download junaio to their iPhone or Android-powered devices in order to get access to additional content, which is accessible by scanning the pages of the magazine. For instance, the front cover of the Celebrity High January issue…
Juniper Research: Mobile augmented reality to generate 1.4 billion downloads by 2015
Augmented reality is getting adopted by a growing number of companies which either integrate AR features into their iPhone and Android apps or make layers/channels for the two popular AR browsers – Layar and junaio. That said, we weren’t surprised to learn that Juniper Research predicts augmented reality elements within mobile applications will lead to…
Popular Science March issue comes with AR-enabled Motorola Xoom ad
Popular Science has already experimented with augmented reality in the past and obviously they liked it. The March issue of the magazine features a 3D interactive cover, revealing the Android 3.0 Honeycomb-powered Motorola Xoom tablet. By simply holding the cover up to an iPhone or Android smartphone, users can virtually preview the Xoom and discover…
Viewdle for Android Mashes Up Augmented Reality, Facial Recognition, and Social Networking [Video]
Viewdle is an app that was being shown off at Mobile World Congress 2011 that really caught my eye. Using an augmented reality interface, where you point your camera to the world and your phone screen superimposes data on top of the image, these guys have developed a way for the phone to not only…
Belgrade street art book gets a junaio-powered augmented reality twist
Marko Todorovic is a photographer behind the streetartlove.rs, an augmented reality art book that documents Belgrade street art scene. Each page of the book, including the cover, “doubles as the platform” for updatable augmented reality content. When a page is viewed through the junaio browser on a smartphone — iPhone or some Android-powered smartphone —…
Super Bowl XLV Guide for iPhone and iPad is a Free Download
I know it’s only a few hours away from kickoff at Super Bowl XLV… but if you happen to be in Dallas for the game, or heck, even if you’re just a crazy football fan, this app is a must have. The Super Bowl XLV Guide is a free download from the App Store, and…
Juniper Research: Revenue from augmented reality apps and services to approach $1.5 billion by 2015
Juniper Research’s latest report is all about augmented reality. The research company has found that an increasing number of leading brands, retailers and mobile vendors are investing in mobile AR apps and services, with global revenues expected to approach $1.5 billion by 2015. According to Juniper, the installed base of AR capable smartphones had increased…
Layar Player goes out of beta; Allows iPhone developers to add augmented reality in their apps
Layar has launched the non-beta version of Layar Player, a free tool that allows iPhone developers to offer augmented reality experiences from their apps. In addition, the company is also pitching the new product to other companies like agencies and brands. The beta period concludes with the launch of three Layar Player enabled iPhone apps…
junaio used to augment TV show “Galileo” in Germany
During the last week viewers in Germany could actively participate in a live TV show with nothing but their smartphone and the augmented reality browser junaio. The occasion was a live quiz of the popular German science show ProSieben “Galileo” and it was described as “just like having a TV set with a touchscreen.” Pointing…