If you read this post, you are probably an avid reader of this blog. If you are an avid reader of this blog, you are probably interested in AR. If you are interested in AR, you probably know that Layar had a fantastic day, at least PR wise: VentureBeat – “Augmented reality browser Layar expands [...]
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Are you a Wikitude or Layar supporter? Maybe Sekai Camera fan? The battle for supremacy at the augmented reality browsers market is getting more complicated by the minute, with two new contenders joining the fight. First, acrossair which brought us the Tube Finder, is now showing off a very slick “general purpose” AR browser for [...]
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This passing week’s trending augmented reality topics were AcrossAir’s Tube Locator (which is two weeks old) and James Alliban’s augmented business card (which is over a month old, can’t see why it became so popular suddenly). Let’s hope next week will bring some fresh AR news. As a matter of fact, tomorrow I’ll cover an [...]
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Continuing my coverage of the augmented reality browser wars, here are the latest news (well, some of them are a few days old, excuse me for procrastinating a bit): AcrossAir is not satisfied with letting you find the closest subway station in London (where it’s called The Tube), it also has its sights on the [...]
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Three weeks after its launch, SPRXMobile’s Layar partially opens up its layer creation API to developers. It’s not freely available online (bad decision?), however, interested developers can register here, and may be among the lucky 50 to get access keys to the API. The press release is here. Meanwhile, Mobilizy (creator of Wikitude) is not [...]
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This week seemed to be all about Layar. The blogosphere and major tech sites were all reporting about the “first augmented reality browser” (and we had our fare share in the coverage as well). However, there were some other AR releated news this week, even though the first item on this week’s linkfest is still [...]
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Surely, you have already read about it at Gizmodo, at ReadWriteWeb, or at any other of the millions of websites which reported the news today. However, if you are avid readers of this blog, you already knew about Layar, “the first augmented reality browser” for at least two weeks (see link for further details). So [...]
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Layar is a new augmented reality Android framework that comes from SPRXMobile. SPRXMobile, which previously brought us the ATM finder and this excellent post about the AR hype cycle, have kicked it up a notch with a full blown AR platform. SPRXMobile don’t provide many details quite yet (they save it to Mobile 2.0), but [...]
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