Interesting YouTube series on the smartphone industry and the Symbian Foundation in particular

December 11th, 2009 by Lester Madden

Now the dust and the wow factor has settle from the Google Goggles announcement a few days back I thought it would be interesting to take a more in-depth look at what this means to the augmented reality industry.
There are demos a plenty of taking photos of book covers to retrieve reviews and online prices. [...]

December 9th, 2009 by augmentedplanet

When I was about 12 years old, I gave my mother a blank card and wrote “Happy Christmas, Happy Birthday, valid until 2010”. That was probably the last greetings card I sent. It’s true to say I am not known as someone who sends cards, except of course the wife on Valentines Day, you don’t [...]

December 8th, 2009 by augmentedplanet

Google have just announced their first augmented reality application for the Android device. Google Googles for the Android allows users to search by taking pictures of real world objects and having Google provide related information. However unlike existing augmented reality browsers that rely on a compass and location based services to provide search data, Goggles [...]

December 7th, 2009 by augmentedplanet

It’s funny sometimes how life works out. Only a few days ago a reader (Primaklima) posted a comment asking for more news on augmented reality applications for Symbian devices. My mission this morning was to have a dig around and see just what was available. I sat down with a coffee, turned on my pc, [...]

December 7th, 2009 by augmentedplanet

Layar 3.0 was released yesterday to the Android Marketplace. I don’t have a Google Android device so my blog is based on the information I have pieced together rather than a physical test. The good news however is Augmented Planet is expanding and we’ll soon be joined by a former colleague of mine, Nitin Samani [...]

December 4th, 2009 by augmentedplanet

Pesselite today announced their latest augmented reality application for the iPhone. If you are a Twitter fan and  wonder where all the people you follow are tweeting from, then Presselite latest application titled Twitter 360 will show you their location on a map.  The application also has 2 augmented realtiy modes, point the device down [...]

December 1st, 2009 by augmentedplanet

Pandemica from XMG Studios is the latest augmented reality iPhone game that uses the camera and accelerometer to produce an entertaining arcade style shooter that you can experience with full 360 degrees of movement. Pandemica transforms your iPhone into a sub-field bio-scanner that can detect the invisible alien organisms that are around you, and like [...]

November 30th, 2009 by augmentedplanet

In my daily scan of the iPhone application store I noticed that Parallel Kingdom — Age of Emergence has arrived. It’s has also hit the the Google Android.
Parallel Kingdom is a massively multi-player online role playing game that takes place around you. The game uses GPS to figure out your location and places the character [...]

November 25th, 2009 by augmentedplanet

A couple of weeks back O’Reilly hosted a webcast on augmented reality. The speaker was Chetan Damani CEO and Founder of acrossair who gave his take on what mobile augmented reality is and the future of acrossair including an update on new products.
Chetan also talks about the choices in selecting a platform and his plans [...]

November 21st, 2009 by augmentedplanet