Wikitude Drive is the world’s first Augmented Reality (AR) navigation system and it is now available for download from AndroidPIT Germany

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Wikitude Drive is the world’s first AR navigation system with coverage in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (and further to come soon). Navigate the streets without taking your eyes off the road as the AR view shows you exactly what is taking place in front of you whilst directing you to your location of choice.

AndroidPIT (link) are offering Wikitude Drive for download in their App Center at the special price of €7,99. AndroidPIT is a Web 2.0 network and an Android blog where Android experts, enthusiasts, developers and users all get together. This fast-moving and ever expanding blog has several thousands of readers and we at Wikitude are delighted that they are offering Wikitude Drive.

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Download Wikitude Drive from AndroidPit for a special price of €7.99 and discover the world of Augmented Reality Navigation for yourself!

1. Download “AndroidPIT App Center” at
   http://www.androidpit.de/de/android/market/app-center
2. Search for “Wikitude Drive” or click the Promo-Banner at androidpit.de

Cheers,
The Wikitude Team

We want to encourage those of you who are keen on developing your own Wikitude World to be creative, find a great use case and be part of the Wikitude World Cup.

So now the deadline for submitting Worlds to win one of 10 LG smartphones is July 31st.

So far many fantastic and interesting Worlds have been uploaded by you developers and all Wikitude Users out there will see your content. It’s time to thank all of you for your great contribution!

The content reaches from interesting architectural buildings, New Yorks churches, tourist destinations around Indonesia to menu listings in your surrounding.

Geocoded Art, MoBe Mobile Guides, Essenfinden, archINFORM are only some of our Developers.

Ogilvy/IBM/Wikitude designed a so called “IBM Seer” application for the tournament which allows users to watch twitter feeds, live audio and video streams and match-scores on Android and iPhone (3Gs). Download “IBM Seer” on iTunes or Android Market, and point at any building at Wimbledon to see latest information about it.

Of course, soccer is high prio these days. However there are other great sport events as well these days: Wimbledon 2010!

Just as last year, Wikitude technology has been used to build this years “IBM Seer 2010″. Wikitude developers, IBM, and Ogilvy worked hard over the last 8 weeks to make this happen: IBM Seer 2010 for Android and iPhone. See IBMs press release:

Ever been court side at Wimbledon and heard an ‘oooh’ and an ‘arrrh’ whilst watching another match or standing outside and wished you could see what’s happening? At this year’s tournament IBM (NYSE:IBM) will allow tennis fans to see through walls and never miss a big point again. IBM has updated its ‘IBM Seer’ mobile application to combine augmented reality with live location-based video streams of some showcourt matches and ‘busy areas’ such as the Aorangi Terrace (aka Henman Hill), and the taxi queues.
Following the success of IBM Seer in 2009, which was the world’s first augmented reality app using live data feeds, the 2010 Seer app streams live video from on and off the court based on the user’s exact location. This will enhance the Wimbledon experience and transform how visitors to the tournament keep up with the action.

Available for both iPhone and Android, the free to download app offers live geo-tagged information on queue lengths, food and drink stands and other Wimbledon facilities enabling fans to use the quickest routes to strawberries and cream and catch more of the court action, even if they are on the other side of the grounds.

Both the Android and iPhone versions feature location-aware visualisation technology with the augmented reality application acting as a real-time guide and interactive map of the tournament as well as providing up-to-the-second scores, venue and transport information. The app features more than 90 points of interest ranging from the new shop through to the ATM next to centre court.

See the original IBM press release.

See more images at IBM Seer flickr account.

“IBM built an AR app that overlaid key data as people moved their mobiles around at Wimbledon, an idea that would be perfect for any kind of sporting event, museum or tourist attraction.”

Why augmented reality will blow your mind | News | TechRadar UK

* New design (slider, buttons and messages), use trackball to change slider-value
* Freeze-Button is available in free-version too
* Map-View uses pins instead of markers
* Button-press feedback in cam-view (short vibration)
* POI marker’s transparency set depending on its distance
* Panoramio Photos fixed (there was an error with non-English languages)
* Status lamp added (GPS status is green, yellow or red – updates periodically)

How does it work?

On the Cam view of Wikitude, simply press the cam button on the top right.

Optionally, add title

After you took an image, you can add personal greetings or what ever you like.

Share by either eMail, MMS or Picasas

Finally you can either save the image on your phone or share it using email, MMS or Picasa.

Enjoy! – Your Wikitude Team

For Experts: Use the freeze AR overlay feature

Sometimes you want an AR description (the “text bubble”) to appear at a certain position. However this is often not possible because of GPS inaccuracy.

Therefore we added a Freeze button to the top left of the cam screen. When you press this button, the AR info stops moving. You can then align the AR info with whatever you see through the camera and take the picture precisely.

To switch off the FREEZE mode, simply press the Play Button on the top left of the screen.