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…
Windows Mobile’s First Augmented Reality App Points to Cities Far Away
Up until now, Android and iPhone have hogged all of the augmented reality glory, but Windows Mobile is starting to get a taste of the action too. Korean developer HyongaSoft has cooked up ompass World Cities, which primarily points you in the direction of select cities, and, once you’re in them, points of interest like…
Layar 3.0 puts 3D objects in real-space, guides you on tours, and does the dishes
Layar has rolled out a new version of its augmented reality browser, and it’s packed with new features. It won’t wash the dishes (not yet, anyway), but Layar 3.0 should make up for that failing with its ability to place 3D objects into real-space, guide you on tours and personalize a particular layer. Imagine walking…
Twitter 360 Offers Augmented Reality Tweeting for iPhone 3GS
A promising new Twitter client for the iPhone has been released that is making a compelling pitch for augmented reality. As you can see from the video, it keeps tabs on geotagged tweets and lets you see them overlaid onto the image viewed from your iPhone’s camera. If the camera is facing the ground, it…
Intridea’s Car Finder for the iPhone uses augmented reality to show where you parked the car
Intridea’s Car Finder for the iPhone is not yet another car finding application thanks to the use of augmented reality. In real life, this translates into a new layer displayed on top of the live camera view, showing directions to your car. Of course iPhone OS 3.1 is required and so is the latest iPhone…
Car Finder: An iPhone app for those of you who park miles away from an entrance
America is so big that an iPhone application like Car Finder [iTunes link] had to be written. You haven’t experienced American capitalism at its most sinister until you’ve walked from one end of a Super Wal-mart to the other. Such large abominations stocking goods produced in South Asia have parking lots that go farther than…
See where your tax dollars are being spent in Layar’s augmented reality
Want to see where the the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is being spent? There’s an app for that. Or, to be more precise, there’s a new Layar “layer” for that. The new “Recovery.org” layer is now available on the Layar augmented reality browser, giving iPhone or Android users the power to pin-point…
Layar comes to iPhone with augmented reality view of… everything
Layar grabbed headlines a few months back as one of the first augmented reality browsers/apps to go live. Today, they’re making waves with the launch of their new Layar Reality Browser iPhone app [iTunes link]! If you check the AppStore, you’ll find that Layar is now ready for iPhone 3GS users (you have to have…
Nokia Working on Augmented Reality Language Translation via OCR Character Recognition
After getting a demo of some of the cool vector map capabilities on the N900 at CTIA, I prodded a Nokia rep about what they’ve been working on with augmented reality (since zooming down to street level on the map to check out the 3D rendering of a stadium was awfully close). He mentioned that…
Wikitude, augmented reality Wikipedia, is in the AppStore
Don’t know have you heard about Wikitude, but it’s a neat application which uses Wikipedia content in the “augmented reality fashion.” So far it was the “Android thing” only, but now it’s available for the iPhone 3GS users, as well. Also interesting is that Wikitude — in addition to using the content from Wikipedia —…