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'Layar Reality Browser' Appears in App Store

Thursday October 15, 2009 8:02 am PDT by Eric Slivka
Augmented reality startup Layar yesterday announced that its Layar Reality Browser iPhone application [App Store, Free, iPhone 3GS only] has been approved and is now available in the App Store. Layar is one of the most prominent augmented reality platforms, which take advantage of the GPS and digital compass capabilities of the iPhone 3GS to overlay information on video feeds from the device's camera.


Layar previously revealed that it is in the process of developing 3D capabilities for the platform, providing developers with tools to offer an even more immersive experience for users.
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nagromme
Posted: 34 months ago
Looks cool, but what does it do? Apparently it browses multiple kinds of data from multiple sources you can choose from:

"While looking through the phone's camera lens, a user can see houses for sale, popular bars and shops, touristic information of the area, play a live game, etcetera."

http://appshopper.com/lifestyle/layar-reality-browser
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Calvinatir
Posted: 34 months ago
there's also a 17+ parental warning when installing... sexual reality?
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Incindium
Posted: 34 months ago
It requires 3.1 firmware to be downloaded/installed... Crap.
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libertyforall
Posted: 34 months ago
Cool like Yelp, but it is missing data points -- searching for Deep Dish Pizza, and it misses a Lou Malnatis & Giordanos just a couple miles away... Upon relaunch, it does not seem to keep the search term, even though it shows up grayed... Clearly needs work still.
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JKColo22
Posted: 34 months ago
Have not played with it too much yet buy pretty neat. Lots of differen options to choose from, still figuring everythin out. Overall, awesome concept that I have been waiting for. Yelp monocle was cool but I have been telling people that soon I will be able to look through the lens of camera and answer their question "I wonder what building that is?" Now I have made good on that promise.
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Lightbrazer
Posted: 34 months ago
So far way better than Monacle and on par with Robotvision. For some reason Monacle is completely wrong in my area (around philadelphia) it seems like 1/3 of the layars are correct, 1/3 are rotated 90 degrees things will show up to my right on the screen that are really directly in front of me and 1/3 of the layars are off by 180 degrees with things in front of me not showing up on screen till I turn completely around.

Robot vision and layar so far are spot on.
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Shaan
Posted: 34 months ago
UrbanSpoon, a very popular App for locating restaurants and bars, released an update for their app yesterday that added "Scope", an augmented reality version of their app. UrbanSpoon did a great job on it and you can even move your "blue dot" on the map if it is innacurate, which is a great feature. Definitely check out UrbanSpoon's Scope and Layar, both are better than Yelp's Monocle.
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zombitronic
Posted: 34 months ago
All this useful AR is cool but I'm really into it for the novelty purposes. I'm still waiting for an augmented King Kong on the Empire State Building or an augmented Godzilla roaming through Tokyo.
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MarceePauff
Posted: 34 months ago
Downloaded. Have no idea what to do now.
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Ding.Dong
Posted: 34 months ago
While these augmented reality apps are really cool to play around with, I agree that they're really just a novelty and don't really serve any practical purpose. Showing the information on a 2D map is a lot more effective and useful. I can’t really someone walking around with an iPhone in front of their face looking for a restaurant or subway.
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