Lonely Planet, the world’s favorite travel company, has teamed up with mobile augmented reality pioneer Mobilizy to bring a world-class mobile AR experience to their renowned travel guides. Whether you are a seasoned traveller or fledgling explorer, Lonely Planet Compass guides provide expert recommendation and useful information to help you navigate city locations.
Lonely Planet Compass guides offer a unique augmented reality experience to extend your travel adventure with useful information about your surroundings, nearby landmarks, and other points of interest by overlaying information on the real-time camera view of your Android phone.
Looking for the ultimate guidebook? One you can slip in your pocket? Lonely Planet’s Compass Guides for Android give you interactive, personalized and fully searchable mobile access to Lonely Planet’s best-selling travel content .
Currently there are 10 Lonely Planet Compass Guides enhanced with Wikitude AR available for the Android market in the US: Boston, Chicago, Miami, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Seattle and Washington D.C. More titles are coming soon.
Features of the Lonely Planet guides enhanced with augmented reality include:
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Enabled with GPS so you can see your current location and plot itineraries on dynamic maps;
- Augmented reality camera-view to visualize data overlays of Lonely Planet recommended points of interest
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Hundreds of listings for places of interest – bars, clubs, restaurants and more – search by category, distance, or by address
- Helpful information on the city, its history and events and more
About Lonely Planet:
Lonely Planet is the world’s favourite travel guide company. Lonely Planet’s goal is to help travellers get to the heart of a place. And it’s not just about travel guides. It’s about websites, TV and mobile products too.
About Mobilizy:
Mobilizy is an early pioneer and one of the leading innovators in mobile augmented reality with in-house development of location-based services and AR experiences for smart-phones.
Media Contact:
Christina Rittchen
christina.rittchen [at] mobilizy.com
Mobilizy GmbH
Phone: +43 662 45 45 55 – 425
Web: www.mobilizy.com
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I have seen this also coming now for other travel sites as well and a lot is going on, this is one example http://www.travelmate.com.
There is a need for having both shared Internet and mobile content convergence and be localized.
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