So, Mobilizy just released a new update for Wikitude, one that allows you to point your phone at ground zero and see a 3d virtual version of the Twin Towers on the phone’s screen. First we should congratulate Mobilizy for intergrating 3d objects into Wikitude. That’s only two weeks after Layar made a similar move. [...]
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As usual, here’s a bunch of links to augmented reality related news bits that have accumulated in my inbox during the week: There’s no end to the augmented reality browsers phenomenon. Cyclopedia is yet another browser that is based on Wikipedia, Bradesco is helping you find your way around Brazil, and AugmentThis! lets you upload [...]
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From our friends at Mobilizy, this exciting press release: SALZBURG, Austria: AUGUST 26TH 2009. Mobilizy GmbH introduces WIKITUDE 3 for the Android OS and relaunches a completely new Wikitude.me geo-tagging platform. WIKITUDE 3 is the latest release of the Wikitude World Browser, the premiere mobile AR application for Android, which displays location-based, geo-specific content in [...]
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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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I have been warmongering last week, with a couple of posts that mainly target Mobilizy of Wikitude fame (“Battle of the AR Browsers” and “Updates from the Front Line“). Mark A.M. Kramer of Mobilizy left the following response to my last post: Dear Rouli, Thank you for the round-up of what has happened in the [...]
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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 on the linkfest, it’s trains, snails and mobile phones: Mobilizy released a new Wikitude version. I will use this opportunity to update my earlier post on IBM Wimbledon Seer application. Apparently, it was a joint work with Mobilizy and Ogilvy. ReadWriteWeb: “Augmented Reality: Here’s Our Wishlist of Apps, What’s On Yours?“, scans through [...]
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