Tuesday 20 October 2009

Augumented reality - gets useful

Two platforms/applications – Wikitude & Layar that uses AR to add an additional layers of info to the world around us. Both are on Android and iphones and both support 3D layers.

Wikitude





Layar




I suspect this will be hugh, particularly in the travel guides / tourism industry, but what if we see the 3D layers develop to the point where we get decent resolution images, maybe with animation – imagine a school visit to site of the battle of hasting. Hold up your phone and watch the battle take place around you. Or a trailor for a film set in London, stand in Trafalgar square and watch a key scene take place around you.

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