Wikitude Drive (Android) US Beta Test Phase starts Thursday, May 20, 10:00am PST !!
A few of you might remember our announcement of Wikitude Drive end of August 2009. For those of you who don’t, here is a recap:
Winner Navteq Challenge 2010 Grand Price
Last Summer, some Wikitude developers were wondering if Augmented Reality was working for navigation as well. We started to try out a few ideas and a few weeks later a working prototype was born: Wikitude Drive. We submitted our solution to the Android Developer Challenge and were voted top 20 in the category “Navigation”. A few weeks later, in February 2010, we won the Grand Prize at the Navteq Challenge 2010 EMEA worth almost 600K € in cash and license fees (See Winning the Navteq Challenge 2010 Grand Prize with Wikitude Drive – The Inside Story).
Wikitude/Mobilizy wins Grand Prize and Navteq Challenge 2010
The message of Wikitude Drive winning at Navteq has been transmitted through PR Newswire to the huge Reuters sign on Times Square, New York City, and to the Clear Channel sign in Las Vegas. However, no one ever saw Wikitude Drive except the Jury of the Navteq Challenge.
Mobilizy at TImes Square
So, here it is: Please have a look at a beta version of Wikitude Drive (for US Android users only at this point, sorry!). We would like to ask fellow developers to test it and let us know what you think.
So, US Android Users, please download Wikitude Drive from the Android Market starting May 20, 10am PST.
The link to the beta version will be closed when we reached 2000 downloads.
If you are among the lucky ones to get a first glimpse on this application, your version will be working for a week.
Please follow the instructions below:
1. You need an Android phone with Android 1.6 or above
2. Download Wikitude Drive from the Android Market
3. After the startup screen, please enter the address where you want to go. You have to have GPS at this point (if you are indoor, go to the window and hold you mobile out!)
After route calculation, the 3D map view launches. To switch to the AR view, simply press the screen.
A hint: pressing the screen will toggle between AR view and a regular 3D map view.
When testing Wikitude Drive in a car, you need a car holder!! Never hold the mobile phone in one hand while driving!!!
Hint: Pressing the screen toggles between AR view and 3D map
Finally a legal notice: It is your responsibility to drive safely and use this product in a manner that will not cause accidents, personal injury or property
damage. Do not operate this product while driving. We recommend explicitly to use this software only in connection with a professional mobile phone cradle.
Mobilizy does not guarantee the error-free operation of this product not the completeness and accuracy of the services or any content provided heron. Mobilizy does not accept and disclaims any liability for any loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the use or inability to use the services or any content.
Known Issue:
Wikitude Drive is not yet available on small screen Android devices (On HTC Tattoo, …)
Currently Wikitude Drive supports only the metric system (meter, km) at this point in time, so US guys, you might learn something new during this test phase :)
We recommend the following car holder:
Hama Universal Multihalter
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Installed it on my Incredible. First time I tried to use it the program crashed. The next time it sort of worked. I entered an address and got a route, but then it said I arrived at my destination when I turned onto the last street, a good two miles from the actual destination.
One other detail – it appears to have forced my screen to stay on – the display stopped turning off automatically. I had to go into settings and set the auto shut off timer to a different value and then back to my desired 30 second value. [The setting indicated it was 30 seconds even though the screen would not shut off.]
Other than those minor issues it was following the route we were driving fairly well. Pretty slick.
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i cannot find in the google market
I downloaded the Beta version of the app earlier today from the market with no problems. It has since been taken down from the market. BUT, the app on my Motorola Droid is telling me that there is an update, but when I tell it to get the update, it errors out telling me that 404 error, it does not exist. Now the app no longer works- cannot get navigation directions. If you tell it no thanks to the update, it simply closes the app out. What gives?
I was able to download and install this today (on my Nexus One) from the Android market but on launching it says that I’ve to upgrade to a newer version and at this point the app is not listed in the market.
Downloaded as one of the 2000 beta users. Connects as says to update to no update that is available and then closes…..help me out here. I really would like to beta test this….but I assume at this point it is vaporware.
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Downloaded an installed it. BUT when I try to use it it tells me it needs to upgrade, but since you’ve pulled it from the market I can’t. And therefore I can’t use it. Please email me
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When it will be available in Eu (Slovenia)?
Regards, Bosti
Hi Bosti,
Our current test phase is only in the US. But once the product is out of the Beta phase we will launch in bunch of counties. We’ll keep you posted.
Greetings
Nicola
Hi all,
We’re very sorry these inconveniences. Please have a look at the following post:
http://www.wikitude.org/enwikitude-drive-beta-test-phase-ends
The application should be available again soon. We’ll keep you updated.
Thx
Nicola
Hi,
We’re very sorry these inconveniences. Please have a look at the following post:
http://www.wikitude.org/enwikitude-drive-beta-test-phase-ends
The application should be available again soon. We’ll keep you updated.
Thx
Nicola
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I made sure I downloaded this yesterday and tried it out on my Sprint HTC Hero (finally running Android 2.1!). The first couple attempts to launch the app resulted in errors. The third time it launched fine and I put in an address. It couldn’t find my GPS location. After another couple failed attempts, it was able to launch the driving directions.
The “camera view” briefly flickered, then disappeared, replaced by just the green path and the arrow. After fiddling with the settings a bit, I was able to switch views back to the camera. However, this only lasted about 15 minutes before the whole app froze. It eventually turned the camera off and, after another 10 minutes, started navigating (without the camera) again.
Like Greg above, it changed my screen timeout to “never” which forced me to change it back. FYI, It also does not like to run concurrent with Slacker radio (I can run Google’s Navigator fine with Slacker). The app also doesn’t run consistently in the background. When I went to check email, then returned, I had to relaunch the navigator.
The interface is fairly spartan (compared to my Garmin and Google’s Navigation app) and I don’t know if it can recalculate directions if you take a wrong turn (like my Garmin) – I didn’t have the chance to test that. However, the camera overlay feature (when it worked) was very cool. I look forward to seeing this app develop!
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I was able to launch this application successfully on first go. When I gave invalid input, it gave me alternative dest. When I launched on alternative dest, the application crashed, it happened consistently. Finally when I gave alternative dest as address, the green and orange arrows didnt come up. It worked great for foot navigation though. Will let you know more as I keep using it.
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Installed and tested on G1 – it does work!!! but choppy voice directions (slow phone?, android 1.6?). there is no settings for US (or I can”t find them – being from Europe doesn’t bother me too much). Little slow rerouting.
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Wikitude Drive now dead? No new Information with a new Version and no app in the Android Market. Many great words from Wikitude from the Drive Navigation , then a bad timelimit test version and now no words more from this and Wikitude Drive while thi projekt now dead!?
Hello Uwe, it’s the opposite. This project is alive as a young puppy.
We are working towards a release – when dealing with navigation and external partners, there are alot of legal issues involved as well. Send an email to drive{at}mobilizy.com and I’ll send you a preliminary copy. In which country are you located?
Regards,
Ph
Hi Philipp!
Is it still possible to get preliminary copy of Drive app? I am from Estonia and really would like to test it.
Thanks in advance,
Dmitri.
I’ve forgot to mention, I was talking about android version of Drive :)
HI. Great job and idea. Is it still possible to get preliminary copy of Drive app for spain? I have a HTC Desire 2.2
hello there would send me the posiblididad a copy to test on the road in Spain?
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