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TweetThe new Layar 3.0release brings more functionality to the reality browser. To help people envision what the service can do, Layar touts five new use-cases: Five Layar 3.0 Use-Cases 1) Architecture Showcase – Visualize the final building at a construction site. 2) Storytelling: Beatles Tour – A visual tour of forty-three locations in London involving …
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TweetInteresting options contained within the Layar 3.0 release. Auto-trigger actions and POI-to-POI capability will help people make games and other products. I’d love to see a good cheesy choose-your-own-adventure using real places and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy style zaniness. Layar 3.0 Publishing Site is up The Layar Publishing site is up, with support for Layar …
TweetCNN’s Kristie Lu Stout interviews Layar’s co-founder Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald in this short video. Nothing new exposed, but it’s another example of the growing awareness of augmented reality by the mainstream media.
TweetIsabelle Okane interviewed Claire Boonstra from Layar at eComm. Interview highlights: * Claire wields her smartphone like a lightsaber. * “Very soon will be head-mounted displays.” (Soon is translated in dutch as not next year) * Tons of Layars available in Amsterdam. *Layer 3.0 will include 3D (demo of windmills and dome foiled by a weak …
TweetThink you know everything there is to know about augmented reality? Well, prove it and take the augmented reality pop quiz. If you’re proud of your score, post the results on twitter with the hashtag #arpopquiz or in the comment section if you don’t use Twitter. Thanks to Rouli who helped me with some of the …
TweetThe music festival experience can be quite overwhelming with copious drinks, flickering lights and nose curdling levels of patchouli in the air. Add Caribbean voodoo, the masked hooligans of Halloween and the general craziness of New Orleans, and you’ll wish you had a guide back to your friends at the Silversun Pickups stage when you wandered …
TweetThis past month the specter of augmented reality, which in the past had been mostly research papers and speculation, has slowly been turning into real products. With a nice long three day weekend to relax, I thought I’d reflect on the more important happenings of augmented reality. Augmented Reality Apps Yelp The hottest topic for …
TweetAs we collectively disembark on a long journey to a future, hence unknown. We’ll want to mark our progress as it goes zipping by our technological car windows. With augmented reality intruding into the general consciousness, we’re going to need ways to explain and document our progress and point to where we’re going. Currently, there are …
TweetWith the iPhone OS 3.1 launch set to debut next month, I wanted to explore the features that are going to help make some AR apps succeed over others. We’re going to be seeing a spike of releases since many have been working towards this moment waiting for the iPhone to become AR enabled, so …
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Tweet Following up all the recent news from Layar reported on Games Alfresco — Raimo van der Klein, CEO of Layar, gives us a video tour of the new Layar 2.0 features. They’ve also released the Content Catalog listing the 87 (and counting) layars that are now live. The video shows us the software which looks …