Big news! Today Spotted by Locals and our development partner d-Media announced and launched one of the first multi-national augmented reality applications for travelers in the world!
City travelers could already check all of Spotted by Locals’ 3000 tips by locals in 22 cities on their mobile phones, and let their mobile guide them towards these spots, with the custom-built cityblogs we launched three months ago.
The augmented reality feature, built on the Layar platform, adds the feature for visitors to point their camera-phone at a street, and see all Spotted by Locals tips around through the lens of their mobile phone. Pointing a camera-phone at a bar, restaurant or other type of spot, displays more information about it on the screen.
In the following presentation you can see how the application works:
The best way to see it though, is in (augmented) real life! If you have an iPhone or Android phone, get the Layar application and try it! Be careful for roaming costs when abroad though…
The application was developed by php and WordPress (and now Layar!) heroes d-Media from Breda!
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This is cool! Gutted though that they don’t have a version for Symbian S60 OS (for Nokia).
[...] can rock the social Web to market their travel dream, and a small Dutch company can put together one of the first AR (Augmented Reality) mobile apps for city travel before the biggies have figured out what hit [...]
@Charl I think they’re working on it!
Layar also published an article about our new Layer on their website: http://layar.com/newest-launched-layers-have-fun-with-foursquare-find-a-flue-shot-get-restaurant-of-tour-tips-and-much-more/
[...] He also shows the Spotted by Locals Layar augmented reality application we launched 2 weeks ago. [...]
[...] launched a Layar application a few months ago (UK daily The Daily Telegraph published an interesting article today, also mentioning our Layar [...]
[...] launched a Layar application a few months ago (UK daily The Daily Telegraph published an interesting article today, also mentioning our Layar [...]
[...] more about our Layar application and augmented [...]
[...] Spotted by Locals is een voorbeeld van een uitgever die slim gebruikmaakt van AR. Sinds 2008 timmeren de oprichters aan de weg met een netwerk van weblogs geschreven voor reizigers, door inwoners van steden in Europa. De Layar-applicatie biedt ‘city travelers’ routes, recensies en tips. [...]
Camera phones are in great demand these days, i own at least two of them,`-