Apple iPhone AppStore is about to get it’s First Augmented Reality App
AcrossAir creates a very interesting Apple iPhone App. This amazing new application tells Londoners where their nearest tube station is via their iPhones video function.
When you load the app, holding it flat, all 13 lines of the London underground are displayed in coloured arrows. By tilting the phone upwards, you will see the nearest stations: what direction they are in relation to your location, how many kilometres and miles away they are and what tube lines they are on. If you continue to tilt the phone upwards, you will see stations further away, as stacked icons. Only available to Apple iPhone 3GS users.
AcrossAir
AcrossAir is working with companies to take advantage of the Apple iPhone platform for everything from fun games to enterprise applications. Our first applications, delivering TV listings for TVGuide.co.uk and our fun game the Fruit Loons, are launching in AppStore in June 2009. Learn more: http://www.acrossair.com/
The first mobile Augmented Reality browser premiers in the Netherlands
The World’s First Augmented Reality Browser. Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone. Learn more: http://www.layar.com/
I would like to see something like this for the Washington DC Metro. This would also be a nice way to locate the many Washington DC museums.
Will Enterprise 2.0 (E 2.0) Lead Us to Wireless Enterprise 2.0 (WE 2.0)?
The success of Enterprise 2.0 can be measured by its adoption rate. The adoption rate increases when people find new ways to communicate and collaborate in which they are familiar. The more intuitive the interface feels, the more people will use it. The point of web-based tools in the enterprise is to support communication and collaboration between people anywhere anytime. The workforce is changing. People are working on the go and sometimes need to get something done when they are not at a computer. WE 2.0 seems to be the next logical step for a dispersed workforce. Steve Jobs and his team at Apple seem to know a thing or two about user interface design, so the iPhone and the iTouch seem to be natural wireless devices to use in the Enterprise. The Apple iPhone is like having a mini-computer in your pocket. WE 2.0 should support other mobile devices, but the Apple iPhone is an easy start because of all the development support. The slides below will review several things to consider before implementing WE 2.0.
What do you think about the Microsoft “I’m PC” commercials?
Years ago I had one of those all-in-one apple computers. I started using a PC because most of my development software was only PC compatible. I was thinking about getting a new laptop, any laptop and after watching the new Microsoft commercials, I ran out and got the MAC Book Pro and loving it! Now I use my old PC Laptop as a stand for my MAC Book Pro.
