Voted “Best Augmented Reality Browser”
by the readers of Augmented Planet three times in a row (2009-2011), Wikitude World Browser is a fun, innovative and informative Augmented Reality ( AR ) platform allowing you to discover what’s around you in a completely new way. By using the camera, simply hold up your smartphone and explore your surroundings. Wikitude will overlay the camera’s display and the objects you look at with additional interactive content and information – really cool!
Quick Facts
- Find events, tweets, Wikipedia articles, ATMs, restaurants, user reviews and much more around you
- Experience places near you in augmented reality or show them on a map and list view
- Browse more than 150 million places and interactive content
- Explore and identify places and objects near by
- Search for specific places, for example “thai restaurant”
- Find mobile coupons and discounts for stores and shops near you
The longer version
Search through lots of exciting content and points of interest from Wikipedia,Youtube, Twitter, Flickr, Starbucks and thousands more. Use Wikitude to browse through what’s around you or to specifically search for places you are interested in. Craving sushi? Just type “sushi” into Wikitude’s search box, hold up your phone and see all the sushi restaurants around you. Looking for special offers near your home or nearest shopping centre?
Simply view all the augmented reality mobile coupons to get up to 50% off ! You can even create your own places in augmented reality, for example your favorite bar, restaurant or meeting point. Go to www.wikitude.me and drop markers on a map to create your own place or hundreds of places. Hit the upload button and a few seconds later your personal places will be visible in the Wikitude.me World on your mobile.
Wikitude World Browser is more than just an app – it has grown to be a powerful augmented reality platform.
Wikitude was the world’s very first Augmented Reality Browser for smartphones in 2008. It was first published when Google introduced the first Android device end of 2008 (the G1), which (again) was the very first mobile device carrying the hardware components required to make AR possible: GPS, accelerometer and digital compass.
Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment which is augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery (more details).
Wikitude World Browser scans your surroundings for (e.g.) geo-referenced content using the camera and the device’s sensors. The objects’ information is displayed in the cam right where the real object is located.
There are millions of places to discover in Wikitude whereat you are most likely interested the ones nearby. The World Browser collects the closest places of all local content providers, so you immediately know what’s happening around you. Each place (or POI, Point Of Interest) belongs to a provider, a so called “World”. Local Worlds are listed on start-up, each one providing information of places around you. You can customize Wikitude according to your needs and preferences. E.g. check “Wikipedia” to see all Wikipedia information around you. You can then view it in a list, on a map or in the cam (AR-View). This way you always know what’s around you, no matter where you are.
You may want to find places relevant to a specific search-term – Wikitude also provides a powerful Location Aware Search, which scans all local Worlds for the specific term (e.g. enter “Pizza” to get everything related to Pizza around you).
If you want to upload your Content and become an ARchitect (and be listed as a “World” in Wikitude) feel free to contact us or have a look at Wikitude.me to find more details on publishing places via file-upload or web-service. It is extremely easy and most developer complete this process in less than half an hour ;-)