A location-based social networking and points of interest app, Foursquare, is finding its way to BlackBerry after getting settled into Android and iPhone. If you haven’t heard of it (I know I haven’t until now), it’s a neat system for users to check in at specific destinations, kind of like BrightKite, only you get points…
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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…
Soundwalk iPhone apps make your wandering through Paris a learning experience
Soundwalk along with the France’s Clicmobile have recently (at the Nuit Blanche, October 3rd) launched a couple of cool iPhone applications. They call them “aural augmented reality tour” apps, which allow visitors to Paris to explore three different neighborhoods of the city: Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Le Marais and Belleville. A friend of mine, Nikola Pejcic, was at…
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…
Brushes iPhone app updated with layer support
Brushes is probably the single most popular painting application for the iPhone and, not surprisingly, we’ve seen few artists using it for their mobile creations. They (and other Brushes users) will be glad to know that it has been recently updated with spanking new features. The big news of the version 2.0 is the support…
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 Twitter clients are coming
Twittaround is a promising iPhone application, which shows where Tweets are coming from in an augmented-reality “kind of way.” It works pretty simple – start the app, point your iPhone anywhere and see whether someone’s Tweeting in the neighborhood. The application is still not in the AppStore and will probably be available once the iPhone…
Google Maps for Mobile 3.2: Layers of data such as public transportation and Wikipedia now available
Google has just released version 3.2 of their fantastic Maps application for S60 and Windows Mobile handsets. With it comes the new ability to see layers of information, superimposed on the map you’re currently viewing. Say you’re in a new city. Just walk outside your hotel room, get a location fix, turn on the Wikipedia…
Barcelona 2009 Summer events recap
Here’s the recap from the three events I attended during the last two weeks, in case you missed something: HiT Barcelona – World Innovation Summit Pre-event announcement Intro DeviceAnywhere offers mobile application and content certification AcCells enables NFC-like payments with any mobile phone! popIn allows “searching on the spot” Scalado offers imaging solutions for mobiles…