Everyone can easily create Worlds for Wikitude 4 with their own logo and branding. Read to following instructions and hints how to create your own World!

What is a „World“?

Wikitude World Browser provides a whole bunch of new geo-located information-services (so called “Worlds”), like Youtube, Google Local Search, Twitter, Booking.com or Panoramio. Worlds contain points of interest – they need to provide longitude and latitude and can include text, image, link, contact details. For example one Worlds could present all cafes of a city, favorite shops or touristic places of a town. Find some showcases of Worlds here!

The user can search through all available Worlds at the same time!

Info:

www.wikitude.me
Content-Developer Network – contact: content (at) wikitude.org

Here is a Step-by-Step „how to“ to create your own World by uploading a KML file

1. Create Content with Google Earth / choose an existing KML file
2. Export KML file / → 3.
3. Go to wikitude.me
4. Log in with your twitter, facebook, google or yahoo account
5. Select „upload KML“ file
6. Write a short title and description
7. Create a nice marker icon (32px x 32px transparent png) and a Logo (96px x 96px transparent png) which will be shown on the left bottom of the screen
8. Upload your information
9. View your overlay in AR!

Keep your file on your Server

NOTE: The content can also be integrated via a HTTP-Interface: Mobilizy will connect to this search-interface, provided by the company; the content can reside on any server, not necessarily on the Wikitude server.

Add more information to your World

Extended features like linking to your Website or adding contact details like telephone-numbers are available with ARML. E.g. Starbucks World Learn more about how to create an ARML here.

KML, ARML – What is it and what’s the difference?

What is KML?
KML is the Google Earth file format. It describes a place containing coordinates, description, image, links,… Similar to HTML describing Webpages, KML/ARML is describing Augmented Reality content.

How to create a KML File?
Use a KML generator like Google Earth and create your points of interest.

What is ARML and it’s advantage?
ARML is based on KML but it enables to add much more information to your point of interest e.g. Telephone-number, Address, Links, different icons and images.

How can I create an ARML?
Learn all about the ARML specification here http://www.openarml.org/

Just like in the beginning with Version 1.0, Wikitude is staying true to being user-centered. It is because of this commitment that we allow users to search for POIs across all Worlds and show the closest POIs right away at startup.  You immediately can see what’s around you, no matter who provided this information (We call this concept “Virtual Discovery”). Since Wikitude is an AR World Browser, it also provides a way to bookmark Worlds, just like you would bookmark a web page in a web browser.

Every user is different – some are traditional vintage car enthusiast, others rent cars frequently, while some don’t even have a driver’s license. This is why we allow users to ignore Worlds which don’t fit their daily lives. Information displayed in an AR app should fit your personal profile, but not spam you every time you launch the app by displaying the latest “off-topic” featured content.

The number of Wikitude-Worlds is growing daily because creating your own World does not require setting up a server or any development skills (see Create your own World). On wikitude.me you can find instructions on how to add content to our system. In the coming days, we will be announcing a dynamic way to add your content. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions on this (developers AT mobilizy.com)

If you have questions or suggestions on UI, user experience or any questions about the information above, please don’t hesitate to contact me personally. I am always happy to get valuable feedback from our community.

Cheers,
Andreas

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Content (“Worlds”) in Wikitude

The new version of Wikitude (out now for Android, iPhone coming soon), Wikitude is able to handle arbitrary geo-referenced content sources. Companies can use Wikitude itself to display the content with customized icons in the Augmented Reality camera view. This is completely free of charge.

The content can be integrated via a HTTP-Interface (Mobilizy will connect to this search-interface, provided by the company; the content can reside on any server, not necessarily on the Wikitude server) KML or ARML file (the files can be uploaded via a web interface, or the URL to a KML/ARML file can be registered to be crawled continuously; in either case, the content will be stored on the Wikitude server)
The main advantage of this option is that Wikitude already has a broad user base, so the content will be available to hundreds of thousands of users. Also, as Wikitude supports various platforms (currently Android, iPhone, Symbian), content will automatically be available on all platforms Wikitude supports, without any costs to the company.

Learn more about how to add your Overlay

Wikitude API

Mobilizy offers an API where developers can easily build their own AR application without reinventing the AR-wheel. The AR code itself is encapsulated in the API, the only thing the developer needs to do is adding the geo-referenced data (Points of Interest) to the API.

A complete tutorial and the API itself can be downloaded from www.wikitude.org/developers.

The API is currently available for Android and iPhone.

White Label Solution

This is the most customizable and extensive option. Mobilizy re-uses the Wikitude core functionality to build an entirely new application for the company. Nearly everything is customizable (content, splash screen, appearance of camera/map/list screen, enabling/disabling of Wikitude-features etc.), Mobilizy will charge the development costs per man day (for each platform requested), based on the specification of the application developed by the company and Mobilizy.
Examples of White Label Solutions include the Lonely Planet Compass, the IBM Seer and the Red Bull Hotspot Viewer.

If you are interested in a White Label Solution please do not hesitate to contact us via info (at) mobilizy.com