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Augmented Reality Travel Guides
4Aug2010Filed under: Travel Technology
Just imagine, you are walking around Italy with your wife and you come across a huge building with columns in the front. You have no idea what you are looking at since there are no sign boards around and you don’t understand if the Italian talking to you is helping you or cursing you.
LonelyPlanet to the rescue. Just point your phone at the building and a description of what you are looking at pops up.
Seems they worked with the team at Mobilizy to develop augmented reality travel guides for the Android. Good move picking an open source platform to start on. The app would be especially useful to last minute travelers like your truly.
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Irshad
August 5th, 2010 at 9:17 am
Marvelous !!! Augmented reality travel guides for the Android is an important item like us.
Stan Timek
August 5th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
This is an excellent application of location-based augmented reality. Most people already know where to find restaurants, etc. in their home town. But travelers do need this information very much! Now if this app combines local reviews of businesses then this can be a big win for Lonely Planet and the people that buy the app.
Stan Timek
Atomic Greetings
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Augmented reality greeting cards done right, with video!