Thursday, October 15, 2009

The flood starts: Layar, Urbanspoon bring augmented reality to iPhone

Two big entrants in the world of augmented reality today brought their apps to the iPhone today.

Both Layar, one of Europe’s pioneers in augmented reality browsing, and the popular restaurant-finding app Urbanspoon are using the technology to mark up the real world. Augmented reality is a nascent field that lets developers superimpose data and graphics on a camera’s viewfinder (kind of like how the Terminator scopes out targets, but not deadly).

The apps are part of anSource: Venture Beat RSS Feed

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