Sekai Camera Support Center. Tonchidot (sekaicamera) TechCrunch 50 Presentation "SekaiCamera" by TonchiDot Layar. Layar 3.0 Is Ready To Add New Layers To Your (Mobile) Reality. The whole idea of using your mobile phone’s camera view as a screen on top of which to add geo-specific information (also known as augmented reality) is one of the more exciting areas in the world of mobile apps.
Amsterdam-based Layar, one of the companies at pushing the boundaries of this growing movement, just released Layar 3.0, which offers a whole slew of new ways to layer data onto the real world as seen through your phone. The company opened up its augmented reality browser to developers last summer and more recently added 3D capabilities. In a blog post, the company details how developers are using its augmented reality platform. One developer created a 3D architectural model of a building in Rotterdam so that visitors to the construction site can see how a superimposed version of it will look on their phones (see video below).
Another one added cut-outs of the Beatles on Abbey Road and other places they sing about. Brightkite/Layar advertising. Location-based social network Brightkite announced this morning that it has added what it calls the first mobile Augmented Reality advertising for U.S. markets to its AR layer in the Layar augmented reality browser. Augmented Reality (AR) is a class of technologies that place data from the web on top of a camera view of the physical world. Layar is a browser for a wide variety of AR data layers, from real-estate listings to government data to messages posted to networks like Brightkite. It is available for Android phones and was available on the iPhone until it was withdrawn from the marketplace last week due to excessive crashes.
The Brightkite ads appear to be just for electronics retailer BestBuy so far, and are displayed as unique markers in your field of view when pointed towards one of the stores. Big round circles have been added to Brightkite camera-view annotations, designating the location of nearby BestBuy stores. Will consumers find the ads more useful than invasive? Brightkite Layar advertising. Augmented reality and geo-location really started to gain steam in 2009, and we expect to see even more developments in 2010. Geo-location in particular has really compelling opportunities when it comes to advertising.
Already businesses are discovering the benefits they can gain by engaging and promoting services via Foursquare — it was really only a matter of time before bigger companies would start to take notice. Today, Brightkite has launched what it calls the first augmented reality advertising solution in the U.S. Brightkite has partnered with Best Buy to run augmented reality advertisements within the Brightkite app for Android and the iPhone through the end of December.For the last few months, the company has allowed its users to see what their friends are doing around them — as well as photos of and comments about nearby places.
Now the company is just extending that idea to its natural conclusion: advertising. Of course, it also has the potential to be annoying and invasive. Layar experiment om de openbare bibliotheek op de kaart te zette. Afgelopen week kwam ik op het weblog van Pierre Gorissen een bericht tegen over het programma Layar. Layar is een programma voor mobiele Iphone en Android telefoons met een camera, GPS en internetverbinding. De camera van de telefoon gebruik je om de omgeving te bekijken, door de GPS weet de mobiele telefoon waar je staat en welke kant je op kijkt en via het internet kunnen gegevens van bepaalde locaties in de omgeving opgehaald worden. De telefoon laat deze gegevens vervolgens als extra laag over het beeld van je camera zien (dit wordt ook wel augmented reality genoemd). Het onderstaande filmpje laat duidelijk zien hoe Layar precies werkt. In het weblogbericht van Pierre werd verwezen naar een website van de stichting Surfnet over het onderwerp augmented reality.
Omdat Jouke een half jaar geleden al een keer gevraagd had of het mogelijk was om zelf een laag aan layar toe te voegen en mij dit ook wel een leuk idee leek, ben ik eens gaan experimenteren. Openbare bibliotheek op de kaart gezet! - Twee weken geleden liet ik als weten dat ik aan het experimenteren was met het programma layar. Ik liet toen weten dat het mij wel leuk leek om een layar te maken met alle bibliotheken van Nederland, maar het toevoegen van alle bibliotheken tijdrovend en op korte termijn voor mij niet haalbaar zou zijn. Ik heb na aanleiding van dit bericht verschillende reacties gehad van mensen die wel mee wilde helpen met het toevoegen van bibliotheken, die de testlaag wel eens wilde uitproberen, en tips om het toevoegen van de verschillende bibliotheken wat sneller en makkelijker te maken. Gerard Kuys kwam met het idee om deadresgegevens van de bibliotheken uit G! DS te halen en Jack kwam met de tip om deze adressen mbv de Google Maps API om te zetten in de bijbehorende coördinaten.
Het uit G! Vorige week heb ik van deze gegevens een layar gemaakt en aan bedrijf layar gevraagd om deze voor alle layaergebruikers toegankelijk te maken. Natuurlijk is deze layar nog niet helemaal perfect. SURFnet/Kennisnet project Augmented Realit. S News Round-up from its Anniversary Event – Augmented Reality B.
By Maarten on June 18th 2010 We proudly celebrated Layar’s first anniversary with fans, developers, publishers and partners in Amsterdam. We shared insights, facts, distribution agreement news, content announcements and API updates. Major announcements included a strategic partnership with Kooaba for image recognition, and the introduction of AR messaging with Floaticons. To top it off the new Layar video was premiered. Layar founders, Raimo van der Klein, Claire Boonstra and Maarten Lens-FitzGerald were joined on stage by CTO Dirk Groten and head of customer development, Matt Miesnieks. >> Presentation slides: “The Who and the What” , Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, General Manager Layar signs deals to be distributed on 1 in 3 new AR capable smartphones worldwide Layar has captured the imagination of Smartphone manufacturers and carriers who are attracted to the Layar experience, which demonstrates to customers the full capabilities of modern smartphones.
>> Samsung endorsement video In closing. Layar is jarig en pakt flink uit. Gisteravond vierde Layar haar eerste verjaardag in de Rode Hoed Amsterdam. Voor de jongens en meisjes achter Layar een uitgelegen kans om een berg aan nieuwe features en statistieken aan te kondigen. Voor degenen die ongeduldig zijn: Het nieuwe Layar promo-filmpje staat onderaan het artikel. Layar, misschien wel het meest vooruitstrevende AR (lees: Augmented Reality) platform op het moment, liet gisteren op haar evenement Layar NEXT zien, nog steeds met rasse schreden vooruit te gaan. Zonder pardon trokken Layar oprichters Raimo van der Klein, Claire Boonstra en Maarten-Lens FitzGerald samen met CTO Dirk Groten en Matt Miesniks een enorme doos aan aankondigingen open.
De aankondigingen die de heren en dames van Layar maakten waren dan ook niet niks en rechtvaardigden zeker het mooi opgezette podium: Pre-Load partnerships Technische vooruitgang Op technisch vlak had CTO Dirk Groten vooral nieuwe functies voor de API aan te kondigen. 1. De community, hoe gaat het met Layar? Attraction of the experi ence. Shows off 3D glasses connected to Layar browser. Nokia Point & Find. Mobile apps and services are truly powerful tools. They can educate, entertain, inform and inspire. And in doing so, they can help millions of people and thousands of organisations change things for the better – for individuals, communities and the planet we share.
From raising awareness about environmental issues to helping reduce your carbon footprint, our green-themed apps and services offer an engaging and informative way to help protect the planet. You don’t have to be a dedicated eco-warrior to enjoy them… just someone who wants to do their bit. HERE Drive, HERE Maps, HERE Transit Nokia's suite of location applications help people optimize their travel, thereby reducing emissions. Climate Mission 3D Games are by far the most downloaded applications.
In Climate Mission 3D, your goal is to reduce the overall temperature of our planet, degree by degree. Nokia Point & Find for Out-Of-Home Advertising. Metaio. Danika Berlin (twitt_AR) Junaio - You - Here - Now. AndroLib, Find all the applications and games available in the Android Market for your Android Phone, HTC Dream, HTC Magic etc... Yelp. Yelp Sneaks Augmented Reality Into iPhone App | Gadget Lab | Wir.
Just a day after we published a feature about smartphones accelerating the development of augmented reality, Yelp sneaked a secret AR feature into an update of its iPhone app. Exclusive to iPhone 3GS owners, the feature is accessible through an Easter egg, which is activated by shaking the handset three times. A message will appear reading, "The Monocle has been activated," and then a Monocle button will appear in the upper-right corner.
Tapping that button will launch your iPhone camera, and digital overlays of business listings, accompanied by star ratings, appear on screen. The app presumably draws its geo-aware powers from the iPhone 3GS' digital compass and GPS. We use the word "sneak" because Apple doesn’t provide an open API to access live video from the iPhone’s camera, making it impossible for developers to provide AR apps without hacking the software development kit. Yelp App Download Link [iTunes] See Also: Mobilizy. Wikitude. Goggles for Android. Okay, Goggles, how fast am I going now? - Times Online. Augmented Experience. Matthew Trubow (AugmentedExp) Nulaz I Qu'est-ce qui se passe? Nulaz AR Version Finally hits the Appstore. Twitter 360 Augmented Reality for the iPhone 3GS.
Twitter’AR iPhoneApp with geo-tagging. Twitter 360 is an iPhone app that lets you visually see the flow of tweets from locations nearby, layered on top of your natural “real” environment. Thanks to to the iPhone’s video camera and Twitter’s new Geotagging feature, you’ll see live Tweets pop up based on your current location. You’ll be able to see where the tweets are coming from as well as how far the person tweeting is. As with most of the augmented reality iPhone apps, you’ll need the built in compass which only comes with the iPhone 3GS. This isn’t the first stab at the Augmented Reality Twitter app but, as far as we are aware, this is the first app to use the feature with Twitter’s new geo-tagging feature. What else does it bring to the table?
“Latest Tweets” mode. “Locate my Friends” mode. 10th Virtual Think Tank - AUGMENTED LIFE & WORK - V-t-t. Einladung Der Virtual Think Tank „Augmented Life & Work“ zeigt die neuesten Technologien und Medientrends und vernetzt die Teilnehmer in Echtzeit miteinander. Termin: 3. Februar in Berlin (Location Deutsche Telekom Labs, Ernst Reuter Platz 7) Zeitfenster 13-20 Uhr Die Deutsche Telekom Labs, der BVDW und TrendONE freuen sich, wenn Sie dabei sein können. Teilnahmegebühr für BVDW Mitglieder und TrendONE Kunden: 80€ Teilnahmegebühr normal: 120€ Flyer als PDF Agenda Moderation: Prof. 13:00 Get Together 13:15 Begrüßung durch BVDW und TrendONE 13:20 Kurzfilm über die T-Labs 13:30 Rundgang Büro der Zukunft; Visual Search - Umwelt mit dem Kamerhandy erkennen; Mobile Payment; Multimodale Fernbedienung für Set-Top-Box; Design Research und Schwarmverhalten; Smart-Home Sercho mit Kochassistent und Energiemanagement-Assistent 14:40 Keynotes PART 1 - TrendONE +++ The Future is Illuminated +++ Nils Müller (Deutschland) - Frog Design +++ Picture the Future +++ Till Grusche (Niederlande) 16:00 Kaffee Agenda English.
Spatial augmented reality: merging ... LightRod.org - Open Source Augmented Reality Server - LightRod. Augmented/Views - Your Source for Augmented Reality News, Updates and Discussion. Lonely Planet - Android Compass. Android users prepare to have your minds blown with Lonely Planet’s new augmented reality Compass guide features. Lonely Planet, publisher of popular travel guides, has released embedded augmented reality features in to new, Android versions of its mobile city guide apps, overlaying place-of-interest information on pictures seen through travelers’ cellphone cameras. Currently Lonely Planet has five Android travel guides for U.S. cities using the new augmented reality Lonely Planet features, and is now rolling out the features for half of the 50-plus main city destinations it covers.
According to the updated Android app page on the company’s site: “Lonely Planet’s Compass guides provide expert advice and recommendations – for seasoned travellers and fledgling explorers alike. Navigate a city like a pro with our trusted travel content and high-quality maps. Through the app, Android users can: See current location and “plot itineraries on dynamic, GPS-enabled maps. Grab practical information and useful tips using our augmented reality camera view. Search by proximity, interest or address. Lonely Planet, Inc., Android Applications and Games. About Lonely Planet, Inc. Name : Lonely Planet, Inc. Published 42 application(s) in the Android Market Overall Average Rating : 2.00 301 ratings in all the applications Total Download Range : 16,000 - 73,250 Statistics Washington DCVersion 1.4 Use the lonely planet compass to discover the best places to eat, sleep, drink, play, shop and se...
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Augmented reality taking off on Japanese smartphones. Augment Reality for the Enterprise - SAP Employee Unveils Prototype. SAP employee Timo Elliott has unveiled a prototype for an augmented reality business intelligence iPhone app. He emphasizes that it's a prototype, not a supported product. It's not available for download yet, but Elliott gives us a look at what an augmented enterprise could look like. Elliot released some proof-of-concept mock-ups on his blog earlier this year (see our coverage), but the project is now in development at SAP in the BusinessObjects Innovation Center, which Elliot says is based on Google Labs. The app prototype enables users to mashup location information with any sort of corporate data available in an enterprise's BusinessObjects OnDemand account. Mashing up location data with CRM data has obvious, if limited, benefit - but what other sorts of uses are possible?
The current limitation of the app is the precision of location based services. What could really be useful for enterprises is the intersection of augmented reality with the Internet of Things. New Augmented Corporate Reality BI Prototype | CloudAve. Based on a blog post and proof-of-concept application earlier this year, I have been championing a SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center project to build an “augmented corporate reality” prototype.
The idea stemmed from one of the key themes of my BI future directions presentations: that for the first time in centuries, new technology comes from the consumer world, not from governments and businesses, and so we need to adapt and adopt these technologies for corporate use. The mobile telephone is starting to become a “universal pointing device”: using the phone’s GPS location and compass, it knows where you are, and what you’re looking at. There is now a wide range of augmented reality mobile applications available on the market that help people find the nearest pizzeria, get information about a monument, or locate local twitter users. How could this functionality be used in the business world? Before I tell you more about it, let me emphasize: it’s a prototype, not a product. How it works. LeoWorld - Mephistophelian.