Layar's Developer documentation site. With Layar's mobile augmented reality platform, third party developers can create various types of engaging AR experiences, such as recognizing real world objects and displaying digital experiences on top of them with Layar Vision, creating interactive features like 3D objects and animation. Location based layers help users find nearby locations, including restaurants, shops and other businesses, as well as historical locations and monuments.

Contact lens technology for use in tandem with VR display glasses

Scan the codes in these ads to be taken to examples of Junaio layers.

Konstruct AR 3D Sculpture App Free Download Download MarkerView Flickr Gallery Konstruct is an investigation into generative art in an Augmented Reality environment. It is a sound reactive AR experience for the iPhone that allows the user to create a virtual sculpture by speaking, whistling or blowing into the device's microphone. A variety of 3D shapes, colour palettes and settings can be combined to build an endless collection of structures. Compositions can be saved to the device's image gallery. You will need to print the marker to use this app.

Some interesting examples in the video at the bottom of the article.

A handy table of AR development platforms

A mobile encyclopedia of where you are. Tell a story.

Early research published in Scientific American

Create digital media augments on physical images, that anyone with a smartphone can see.

Creative ideas for augmenting libraries with AR

PorPOISe is a server for Layar clients. It converts your data sets of POIs (Points of Interest) into responses to the Layar client. Things like JSON formatting and distance calculation are all done for you. PorPOISe supports XML files and SQL databases as data stores.

The project required groups of students to study and explore a number of locations in their host cities. Students were broken up into small groups and asked to research specific locations in the cities they were staying. The assignment was entirely location based with students creating an augmented reality layer with these points of interest, uploading geo-tagged photos to a Google map and embedding this map into their blog. All these elements integrated along with their travel journals on the course blog.