Until now, there were two mobile “augmented realities”, one of GPS and compass based browsing and finding nearby POIs like shops, restaurants or train stations by pointing a mobile phone’s camera on the environment. This makes sense for some location based services and has reached a certain level of best-practice in the last months. The other augmented reality deals with visual search and image recognition. Pointing the smartphone at products, posters, magazines or newspaper pages, packaging or any other object as in our case a CD cover, will instantly provide the user with relevant, dynamic and fascinating information on the object itself. With the Android version of junaio featuring kooaba´s advanced visual search capabilities and the core tracking and rendering technology of metaio the two augmented realities finally become one.
metaio`s exciting next generation augmented reality browser junaio® has extended its capabilities beyond the usual location based internet services. The new Android version of junaio lets users for example point a phone camera at any CD cover and see related information, such as band-related merchandise on eBay, affiliates or customer ratings and nearby events related to the artist. For this first use-case we have teamed up with visual search specialists kooaba – their image recognition identifies the CD while metaio`s augmented reality engine displays the relevant information in an AR interface.
Please find a conceptional movie here:
And find a review with a running system by Jay Donovan from Chrunchgear here:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/06/01/junaio-augmented-reality-browser-comes-to-android/
[...] announced two exciting partnerships, the first with Kooaba adding vision based AR to Junaio on the Android. The other is with YOUReality to improve their eCommerce [...]
“This makes sense for some location based services and has reached a certain level of best-practice in the last months.”
I think so too!
nice applications, soon I will try to build my own augmented reality app