Friday Night Movie Night: Augmented Reality App for Orange Telecom

This isn’t a super productive application but it shows the possibilities.

An promotional augmented reality app by Ogmento. Developed to promote the iPhone launch by Orange Telecom Israel. Point your iphone to an Orange logo and watch a virtual iPhone appears hovering over the logo. Use finger gestures to turn the iphone around, zoom in or out – or even launch applications.

Wikitude – Wikipedia Augmented Reality Application

Available In: App Store       Price: Free  

Wikitude Yesterday Wikitude, a Wikipedia augmented reality application, hit the App Store. A quick wiki definition of Augmented Reality – “a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are merged with-, or augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery – creating a mixed reality”

Augment your world with the Wikitude World Browser, the acclaimed android application is now finally available on the iPhone. See the world through your phone’s camera view overlaid with Wikipedia content, Qype reviews and user-generated content from Wikitude.me (www.wikitude.me)

The WIKITUDE World Browser presents the user with data about their surroundings, nearby landmarks, and other points of interest by overlaying information on the screen of the iPhone.

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Robotvision Now Available in the App Store

Available In: App Store       Price: $0.99  

Robotvision Robotvision, an augmented reality application, is now available in the App Store. A few days ago we covered the app and were awaiting it’s release. Well, wait no more, you can now pick it up for just $0.99 in the App Store. Below is the demo video for those of you who missed it the first time… a pretty sweet app.

Remember: you will need an iPhone 3GS with 3.1 firmware in order to install the app.

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Robotvision – Augmented Reality Application

Available In: App Store       Price: Coming Soon  

##ICON_NAME## Robotvision is an augmented reality application. A quick wiki definition of Augmented Reality – “a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are merged with-, or augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery – creating a mixed reality”

I got an email about this application and was instantly intrigued. I think these type of applications are just crazy! Think… you are walking down the sidewalk on your lunch break and you decide to hit-up a coffee shop but you are feeling adventurous and want to branch out from the one you usually go to so, you whip out your iPhone, open Robotvision and select the Coffee Shop option… you hold up your iPhone and as you walk down the sidewalk it begins to display all the surrounding coffee shops (in your actual “physical environment”)… you turn to the right and it displays the coffee shops that are down that street, you turn to the left and it displays the coffee shops that are down that street. [Read more…]