Archive for June 2009

Realtime Data Overlay

In Services, Technologies on 17 June 2009 tagged augmented, cloud, mobile, reality with View Comments

Augmented reality is old news in academic circles, but a new application called Layar may well the tipping point, bringing really useful information to the mobile-device-carrying masses. The app uses a mobile device’s built-in camera, magentometer, GPS, and data connection to determine where the user is at and what they are looking at. Then it [...]