Today my wife and kids were ignoring me so I hijacked my wife’s new iPhone. I’d been curious to try the game on Layar called Conquar. The idea sounded simple–take control of your city using troops. Unfortunately, the game IS that simple. The way the game works is this: when you create an account, you’re randomly put [...]
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It was the early days of June when I first reported about Layar, the brain child of the small Dutch team behind SPRXMobile. Two weeks later it went public, followed by what can only be described as a media frenzy. One year later, Layar is quickly becoming synonymous to mobile AR*: Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, one of [...]
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After a month long hiatus, it’s back! The weekly linkfest is here, with a fresh batch of links: Top headline of the week obviously goes to Qualcomm, which will launch a free vision based AR framework for Android this fall. In order to encourage developers to use their SDK, Qualcomm holds a contest for best [...]
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It’s time again for the weekly linkfest, where we slay augmented reality smoke monsters every week since 2009: Toby interviews TagWhat’s CEO Dave Elchoness. Total Immersion’s CEO Bruno Uzzan gives his perspective on AR. Read Write Web on the state of the augmented reality union. Augmented Planet sets to define what exactly is mobile augmented [...]
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Press release by Layar: Amsterdam, April 28th 2010. Today Layar introduces a new revenue stream in Augmented Reality. Publishers on the Layar platform now have the possibility to offer priced Augmented Reality experiences on multiple mobile platforms such as iPhone and Android. The content store is seamlessly integrated into the Layar Reality Browser, which is [...]
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It will be a challenge cramming all of this week’s links into seven bullet points and a video, but I’ll try my best: This week featured a couple of augmented Easter eggs hunts, but only one, as far as I can tell, April fools prank – Kooaba sold for $50 million on eBay. Last year [...]
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Yep, I was too busy this week to write posts, and the coming week doesn’t seem to be better. Luckily, there’s always the weekly linkfest, where I can point to news stories that I haven’t covered this week (some of those you might have seen if you are following me on twitter): Augmented Planet’s Lester [...]
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