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Unifeye Mobile is a glimpse of the (virtual/real) future - through the viewfinder of your cell phone's camera! With Unifeye Mobile, metaio is developing the first fully-integrated Augmented Reality software for mobile devices.

Wherever you are, the nru mobile application ("near you") will work out your exact location and which way you're facing. It will then show you the nearest places to go, from bars and restaurants to cinemas and cafes. As you turn to face different directions, the view will change so you always know which way to go. nru gets it's content from Qype, the local search and recommendation website, and fonefood, the mobile restaurant booking service from lastminute.com.

unaio allows you to create, explore and share information in a completely new way using augmented reality. By combining innovative online and mobile technologies you will be able to see any kind of location-based content through the display of your mobile phone. junaio is bringing the Internet to the real world around you. So get ready for the Outernet experience and join in!

Ogilvy and Mindmatic were instrumental in helping IKEA to develop this mobile web interior home planning tool. 

"Enkin" introduces a new handheld navigation concept. It displays location-based content in a unique way that bridges the gap between reality and classic map-like representations. It combines GPS, orientation sensors, 3D graphics, live video, several web services, and a novel user interface into an intuitive and light navigation system for mobile devices.

"Enkin" introduces a new handheld navigation concept. It displays location-based content in a unique way that bridges the gap between reality and classic map-like representations. It combines GPS, orientation sensors, 3D graphics, live video, several web services, and a novel user interface into an intuitive and light navigation system for mobile devices.

Nokia Working on "Augmented Reality" for Mobile Phones

A new report from Juniper Research has found that the market for mobile augmented reality (AR) services is expected to reach $732 million by 2014, with revenues derived from a combination of paid-for app downloads, subscription based services and advertising.

The most interesting update to Mobilizy's mobile augmented reality offering is the relaunch and full integration of the Wikitude.me platform with the browser. Wikitude.me is a socially-aware geotagging site where you can log in with an existing Facebook (Facebook), Twitter (Twitter), Google (Google) or Yahoo account and add location-based information that other users will be able to access later at that same spot.

SHOULD the guidebook industry be feeling anxious? The Sunday Times draws attention to an interesting new gadget, Wikitude, which could render some guides obsolete. Wikitude combines accessibility-it's a piece of software that can run on certain mobile phones-with the encyclopaedic breadth of the Wikipedia website to provide detailed information about what you see around you.

AR developers can't change the hype cycle, but they can position themselves to withstand the upcoming trough of disillusionment. I think it will come with the iPhone 3.1 launch, when users find that the mobile AR tech isn't quite at the level it's advertised to be.

The possibilities of Augmented Reality ("AR") on mobile devices are only just becoming apparent. SequencePoint Software has a promising demo app, "ARound", for the Nokia N97.

Layar is a new augmented reality Android framework that comes from SPRXMobile. SPRXMobile, which previously brought us the ATM finder and this excellent post about the AR hype cycle, have kicked it up a notch with a full blown AR platform. SPRXMobile don't provide many details quite yet (they save it to Mobile 2.0), but here's what was made public on their site:

By far, the biggest crowd pleaser at last week's TechCrunch50 was a demo by the Japanese startup Tonchidot for a mobile social tagging product it is developing called Sekai Camera.

First off, the Nokia-owned company has launched LocationPoint in Europe. LocationPoint is NAVTEQ's proprietary location-based advertising service that ties together businesses with end users through mobile devices. The platform-independent solution can serve advertisements, coupons and other incentives to end users based on their location. For instance, an end user in the vicinity of a coffee shop could be served a coupon for a discount on a premium cup of joe.

Wikitude is number 6 in this lineup id ar applications. Very subjective selection process.

A lot of excitement has been building around a category of iPhone and Android (Android) apps, most of which have yet to be approved or released. They are known as augmented reality apps.