http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Video: SPRXmobile's Layar is world's first Augmented Reality browser for cellphones http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/http://pointandfind.nokia.com/?home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1wM6nlcALA]]>Jun 17th 2009 9:30AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/Jun 17th 2009 10:51AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/Jun 17th 2009 7:13PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/
http://www.mobilizy.com/wikitude.php

Wikitude is very similar, except it gives you data from wikipedia for tourists. Also has a radar and camera overlay.]]>Jun 17th 2009 7:54PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/However, there are a few key differences. Main one being the industry leading names that SPRX has been gathering (Funda is the primary real-estate search engine in .nl, Hyves is the leading dutch casual social networking site, Tempo-Team is a big temp-agency and ING is one of the bigger banks). This makes for a vastly different experience than tourist info (which I have to admit would be very very sweet).

I think these two apps can peacefully co-exist.]]>Jun 18th 2009 4:19AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/
Yeah, I know, I never said they couldn't coexist peacefully :P I was just pointing out that this is hardly the FIRST app of it's kind, as the article's title implies.

And btw, I know what ING is, I used to work for them ;)]]>Jun 18th 2009 8:47AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/It's from the anime Eden of The East, and it uses both live video view, picture viewfinder mode and an already snapped picture to identify people, landmarks, items and other objects. Even just by having a portion of it within the image.

It'd be amazing to have something like that.
ie. See a flower that you think looks really nice, and you'd want to know a bit more about it. Take out your (smart)phone and point your viewfinder at it, and the phone will automatically tag it with results from various resources from the internet with it's name, common facts and other things (comments and such).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcFSUuFj-BM (skip forward to 3:08-3:55 for an example)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpwF4t6mUHs (skip forward to 4:00-4:48, don't mind the voice, at least it's subbed so you know what's going on)]]>Jun 18th 2009 2:00AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/06/17/video-sprxmobiles-layar-is-worlds-first-augmented-reality-bro/Jun 18th 2009 2:02AM