Our new way to create Wikitude Worlds has been a huge success! If you don’t know what a World is, please check this out: “Create Your World”. If you do, read on:
New Worlds are popping in on an hourly basis (100+ in a few weeks). We appreciate the work of our content developers and that’s why we present examples of their efforts here on our blog. This time it’s the brand new Hertz World.
Mike McDowell, Innovation Architect at the Hertz Corporation about his intention to create a Hertz World for Wikitude:
Hertz prides itself on technical achievement and innovation. We’ve been moving slowly but surely into the mobile space with a version of our website over a year ago and now a new iPhone and soon to launch Blackberry app. We’ve been watching the Augmented Reality space develop and brainstorming different things we could do. We actually came across Wikitude in the current “Most Innovative Companies” issue of Fast Company. We checked it out and knew it was something we had to be a part of. Within 1 day we had the vast majority of our US locations uploaded into a simple “Hertz World” (more advanced ARML version to follow) and were checking them out in the Wikitude Android application.
Wikitude can really be a key tool for Hertz customers on the go. It is surely a great new way to assist our customers in finding the closest Hertz locations. Even better, sometimes, finding the “location” of a Hertz car rental location is trickier than it might seem. Coming off an airplane, you could certainly follow the airport signs for the Hertz rental cars, but how much nicer it would be for our customers to be able to pop open Wikitude and just scan around for the direction of the actual Hertz location. Sometimes you feel like you’ve followed all the signs but just can’t find what you are looking for. Wikitude to the rescue! Clearly there are many other possibilities for us at Hertz, and we are only scratching the surface of what can be achieved. We look forward to exploring the possibilities for our customers even further in the days ahead!
If you would like to create your own World go to wikitude.me !
Realy, really, really, really, really, really cooool!!!
[...] want. Currently, there are some 200 worlds in the Wikitude universe, including ones developed by Hertz, Harley-Davidson and, not surprisingly, [...]
So… when will be a version for the blackberry? I got a Storm and would be nice to have this kind of app in my device. Also would be the first one for a blackberry, I don’t know about any app of AR for RIM’s devices…
Hi,
Thx for your interest in having Wikitude ported to Blackberry. Porting Wikitude to other platforms is definitely on our roadmap. We’ll keep you updated.
Greetings
Nicola
how about this : create videos of the drive from your rental locations to popular places and offer these to users of your site !
1) you go to an unfamiliar place, its late or youre in a rush, you dont have a map
2) you want to avoid this : you would like to know the lie of the land, the drive from where you pick up your car to where you are going, or to the main road to where you are going.