It has been such a tease being able to use Street View in Google Maps for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and S60 in Canada for places all over the world, but nowhere close to home. Well, finally Google has launched Street view in Canada, covering Vancouver, Squamish, Whistler, Banff, Calgary, Kitchener-Waterloo, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal, Quebec…
Bionic Eye is another augmented reality app for the iPhone 3GS
There’s an augmented reality craze out there. The latest AR app we spotted is called Bionic Eye and it’s made for (guess) iPhone 3GS. The application is readily available from the AppStore, giving you augmented reality view with points of interest across US, UK, France and Tokyo. In vertical position, you can see a 360-degree…
Robotvision – Bing-powered Augmented Reality for iPhone
Now that the iPhone OS 3.1 is officially official, the iPhone 3GS is free to play around with all sorts of cool AR apps. One of the coolest new augmented reality apps for iPhone is Robotvision. The iPhone AR app uses Bing’s new Bring iPhone SDK to help iPhone 3GS users to find nearby Tweets,…
About freaking time: Mobilizy proposes an open standard for augmented reality data
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…
Video: Nokia’s concept of the future does away with keyboards and screens, is full of augmented reality
Not much info on this video. It was shared with me via Twitter from @alextootchie. Enjoy: Think something like this will ever happen? Do you even want it to happen? Update: And the paper [PDF document] that goes with this video. Hat tip to @chilko.
Apple launching iPhone OS 3.1 next week?
The iPhone AppStore already boasts a handful of iPhone apps with support for augmented reality. But, Apple has yet to officially come out and support AR on the iPhone. The Paris Metro Subway and Yelp iPhone apps recently pushed updates to the AppStore that enabled AR features – these updates were presumably snuck past Apple.…
ARound Project brings augmented reality to Symbian S60 smartphones
We’ve seen companies making augmented reality apps for the iPhone and Android. What about Symbian S60? After all, it’s the single most popular smartphone platform worldwide, and some of the devices on the market have all the hardware required for this to work — i.e. GPS, accelerometer and compass. On that note, I’m glad to…
Augmented reality is a reality for the US iPhone AppStore!
Just yesterday we saw the iPhone AppStore open the doors to Paris Metro Subway. The iPhone app, only supported in Paris (for obvious reasons), gave us a glimpse into the power of AR. The launch of Paris Metro only highlighted how much it would suck to have to wait until Apple officially launched its Augmented…
iPhone augmented reality is a go with Metro Paris Subway!
It wasn’t expected to happen until Apple released the iPhone OS 3.1 firmware update, but it seems at least one iPhone app developer has managed to push through an app-update that enables augmented reality on the iPhone. We’ve seen plenty of AR apps being demonstrated on the iPhone in the past, but they have yet…
Augmented Reality Android Traffic App Looks Down the Road
This is pretty cool. Some basement developer in Toronto has cooked up an Android app that figures out which geocoded traffic cameras are on your estimated route, allowing you to check out conditions down the road before you get stuck in a jam. Trust me, having gone down the 401 a few times myself, it’s…