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- Smartphones Get Killer App
- A killer application has finally emerged that should allow smartphones to overtake conventional PCs and laptops as the computing device of choice: it's called augmented reality, and as absurd as that sounds, that's exactly what it is. Mobile applications consultant Tomi Ahonen wrote on his...
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- iPhone's Achilles Heel
- The worldwide runaway success of Apple's iPhone is explained quite simply by the apps available for users to download. Apple has an unmatched catalog of apps and enjoys the benefit and unparalleled competitive advantage of the iTunes payment system, which is as frictionless as mobile payment systems get. ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
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- Layar Reality Browser 2.0 is in the AppStore!
- Remember Layar, the company which showcased its offering at Mobile 2.0 Europe in Barcelona? Well, they've just launched the updated version of their Reality Browser bringing many new features including: Finally, the press release — which follows after the jump — says that the Layar Reality Browser 2.0 can be...
- News items 2009-08-18
- Layar Augmented Reality Now World Wide on Android, iPhone is Next
- Layar, the jaw-dropping Dutch Augmented Reality browser we wrote about earlier this summer, announced today that it is now available world-wide on Android handsets. Hundreds of new data layers are available to view on top of your phone's camera viewer, from Wikipedia entries when you're looking at geographic points of...
- News items 2009-08-17
- Layar Gets Fresh Funding, Promises Multiple Realities
- Layar, the augmented reality app that lets you see where stimulus money is being spent , among other things, has just gotten a fresh $1 million cash infusion from European investors. The Dutch company, which makes iPhone and Android apps that overlay data...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Battle Of The Augmented Reality Apps: Urbanspoon, Layar, Wikitude, WhereMark & More
- There seems to be an explosion of "real-time" search engines on the PC. The space is very new, still fairly open and in my opinion the tools and sites are not yet all that useful. Almost exactly the same can be said of "augmented reality" AR in mobile. From almost...
- News items 2009-10-15
- Augmented Reality: 5 Barriers to a Web That's Everywhere
- Fifty years after its invention by the British Royal Navy for use by fighter pilots, the technology of layering information on top of our naked view of the world may cross over the line between science fiction and mass consumer experience as soon as next month. It's widely believed...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Is Apple Going to Support Augmented Reality, After All?
- The cranky elves that run the iPhone App Store may be warming up after all to the emerging field of Augmented Reality AR. AR app makers, who are building sci-fi-like interfaces for viewing data about the physical world on top of the mobile phone's camera, were beginning to feel...
- News items 2009-10-14
- Augmented Reality App Shows Recovery.gov Funding Near You
- Want to see who got part of the hundreds of billions of dollars in Recovery.gov funds near you? Now you can point your iPhone 3Gs or Android phone in any direction and see the closest recipients, thanks to the publication of the official data set onto the...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Apple Wants to Patent Augmented Reality
- Back in June, my colleague Michael Hickins called augmented reality the "killer app" of the cell phone and mentioned two companies, Layar and Mobilizy. There's just one problem. An Apple patent getting press this week could mean that such vendors might have to get permission to do what they do,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- From Facebook to Apple: How to Fix the iPhone App Store
- The Apple iPhone App Store has been a lightning rod for criticism and controversy: a race to the bottom for app prices, FCC investigations, and strange app bannings just to start. It's gotten so bad that Apple VP Phil Schiller has been doing damage control. Now an important figure has...
- News items 2009-08-25
- Wikitude: Geo-tag the World Using Your Facebook or Twitter Account
- The mobile augmented reality space has really been heating up lately (check out our recent feature on the top 6 AR apps). Today one of the front-runners, Austrian software company Mobilizy, launched a new version of their mobile augmented reality browser Wikitude for Google's Android platform. For those unfamiliar with...
- News items 2009-08-26
- RobotVision: A Bing-powered iPhone Augmented Reality Browser
- Bing Local Search has some interesting features you won't find in Google, so the prospect of seeing Bing listings appear on top of your iPhone's camera viewer when you point at a restaurant or business is intriguing. That's what forthcoming iPhone app RobotVision offers - and it displays a view...
- News items 2009-08-28
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