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Augmented reality app junaio is now in version 4.0, ready to be downloaded from Google Play and Apple AppStore. Available as a free download, it comes with a brand new user interface and experience, featuring “amazing content, incredible interactions and a tool that allows anyone to produce their own experiences.” As soon as you fire-up…
Augmented reality experts at Layar launched a new app and platform – Stiktu, allowing users to “remix the real world.” Available as a free download from the Apple AppStore and Google Play, it lets users add their own drawings, text, images and stickers to magazines, posters and more by simply scanning them with a smartphone.…
Penguin Books has teamed-up with Zappar to make the Penguin English Library “ready for the 21st century.” Using the Augmented Reality technology, readers will be able to bring elements of four of the books to life, including animations of Coralie Bickford-Smith’s illustrated covers, video, audio and extracts. Initially, readers will be able to access the…
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…
Condé Nast UK and Zappar have teamed-up to make the June issue of Tatler to life to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. The special issue includes augmented reality content which is discoverable using the free to download Zappar app. As a result, users will be able to extract visuals from the magazine, dress up like…
Google released a new video entitled “Project Glass: One day…” and shows off what could possibly be the set of Android powered augmented reality glasses we heard about not long ago. The video shows what the world could be like one day using a device like this. We’ve heard that the glasses will only have…
UK’s largest online greeting card company Moonpig and augmented reality specialists at Zappar have teamed-up to “change greeting cards forever.” The new service, available from Moonpig’s website, allows users to create greeting cards that incorporate their own videos and personal messages. Here’s how to do it First, pick a card on the Moonpig site, upload…
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…