Layar Augmented Reality Browser Now World Wide on Android, iPhone is Next
Layar, the jaw-dropping Dutch Augmented Reality browser we wrote about earlier this summer, announced today that it is now available worldwide on Android handsets. Hundreds of new data layers are available to view on top of your phone's camera viewer, from Wikipedia entries when you're looking at geographic points of interest to Trulia real estate listings that are viewable when you point your phone at homes for sale.
Trulia says it only took about 3 hours to build its layer on the Layar data set, something that's very promising for the future of the platform. The program is now coming preinstalled on the Samsung Galaxy (i7500) in the Netherlands, and the company says the iPhone 3GS will be next. Other developers have reported that they expect the iPhone to offer official support for Augmented Reality apps as soon as next month.
Of all the Augmented Reality apps we've seen so far, though, Layar is the most exciting because it's a platform. We look forward to seeing if the user experience can come close to matching the huge amount of hype this medium is getting. The possibilities are many; New York new media agency SoundWalk is developing a mixed-reality fiction data set for Layar, for example, where users will be able to listen to a story tied to physical locations around their cities and navigate through the story by walking down the street and viewing the places they visit through their phones. Location-based social network Brightkite has already launched a layer that lets you view location check-ins, photos and messages left by your friends in the places you view through your phone.
Layar announced today that it has shared API keys with 100 layer developers. We hope that API access will be open in the future and that Augmented Reality layers will not be subject to the company's approval and vetting relative to its existing commercial partnerships. As one proprietary AR browser launches, it's not hard to see a future in which an Open Source competitor plays like Firefox in this space as well. Time will tell which direction Layar goes.
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It's fantastic integration between the social digital world and real world. Impressive. I am really looking forward to get it in Ireland.
Soon, augmented reality will allow my phone to tell me if someone is woth talking to.
Augmented Reality: Layar Now Available World Wide - iPhone Coming Next! http://bit.ly/a0ssY [from http://twitter.com/marshallk/statuses/3363272144]
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August 17, 2009 9:33 AM
I've seen it in action, really impressive.
@enrico,
It's available in Ireland. You can download it from Android Market. If you are in Dublin there is a cool layer showing you all train stations and also one from www.daft.ie showing you real-estate objects. Further there are plenty of global laers to play with
Raimo
Augmented Reality phone apps are great and its good to see them come to Android but this is definitely not "a world first".
There are already windows mobile AR apps that were released early last year plus the iPhone also has at least one app that I know of as well.
Great stuff.
Not sure about a Augmented Reality Mixed Reality Game though.
Which is really a ARG, so thats an AR-ARG, or an AARG or something.
Mixed reality games that can only be played in one city limits players hugely combined to online location-less ones.
"There are already windows mobile AR apps that were released early last year plus the iPhone also has at least one app that I know of as well."
No, there isnt yet, only hacked iPhones as Apple hasnt released API for accessing the camera in an app and you cant release stuff in the app store using custom APIs.
Yes, the app is now available worldwide in Android Market (free).
To try it out, you could try my "Tweeps Around" layer, which shows you which twitter users are active in your neighborhood.
See my blog post over here for more:
http://squio.nl/blog/2009/08/17/announcing-layar-app-tweeps-around/
Great view and i like to have one.
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Impressive!
Scary idea, train the mobile cam on someone and augment him/her with FB/Twitter info.
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This will be great for tourism and so on. and it will be really useful if you're exploring a specific locality.
Cannot wait to see this applied to the inside of a retail environment.
This is great example of mobile computation and all that looks real and useful.
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