Saturday, November 21, 2009

LBS - Augmented reality

Characteroke is a portable AR display costume, whereby the head and neck are concealed behind an active flat panel display.

Wikitude is an AR application for Google Android-based phones such as T-Mobile's HTC G1, HTC myTouch, Motorola Cliq, and Samsung Behold2, Sprint's HTC Hero, Verizon's Motorola Droid and ATT's Apple iPhone. The actual camera view is overlaid with geo tags from [1]. The application was developed by the Austrian-based company Mobilizy. Mobilizy also developed an app for ING locating the nearest ATM see Springwise for more info.

Layar is an application for the Android Phone similar to Wikitude, but allows third party content providers to define own "layers", that users can select for display.

Nokia Point & Find is a service for the Nokia smartphones (S60) that lets consumer discover context-aware information and services using advanced technologies such as real-time image recognition. The Nokia Point & Find Management Portal lets everyone create their own experience on top of the P&F platform.

Monocle is an iPhone application developed by Yelp, Inc. that overlays Yelp member reviews onto buildings as seen through the eyes of the iPhone camera. It is the second iPhone application to utilize augmented reality,[5] with first-mover kudos to the Metro Paris.[

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