http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/netherlands used for category lists, takes arguments en http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/browse_your_surroundings_augmented_reality_browser <!--paging_filter--><p>Scandinavian developer SPRX mobile has developed Layar, an augmented reality browser for 3G phones, which it claims is unprecedented. Despite the company’s we-have-the-first-AR-browser rant, Layar is in fact the world’s second AR browser. The first being Wikitude AR, which <a href="http://www.mobilizy.com/en/wikitude-ein-reisefuhrer">provides users with location-based Wikipedia and Qype content</a> using the phone’s GPS, camera and compass. But Wikitude AR is certainly short on features when compared with Layar. </p> <p>Layar lets users <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5292748/layar-first-mobile-augmented-reality-browser-is-your-real-life-hud">browse their milieu using their 3G handset’s GPS, compass and camera.</a> It furnishes realtime information about the user’s surrounding, which is <a href="http://layar.eu/">presented as screen overlays and can be used to find hotels, bars, ATMs, properties for sale, jobs and a lot more</a>. The idea is that all that meets your phone’s camera has a story of its own. It is only available for Android devices in the Netherlands.</p> <div style="text-align: center"><img src="/files/u46168/layar.jpg" width="400" height="225" /></div> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/browse_your_surroundings_augmented_reality_browser#comments News 3G android app ar browser augmented reality g1 GPS iphone layar netherlands Software wikitude Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:05:30 -0500 Pulkit Chandna 6637 at http://www.maximumpc.com