Description: Send your Christmas Greetings in the Muzar Layar. Add your own Santa Claus POI on the Muzar website Country: international Developer: Jeroen Meijer Developer Company: Muzar.org
WISDOM
Description: SEEDA feat. ILL-BOSSTINO, EMI MARIA; The famous Japanese rapper Seeda’s new album, promoted through Layar. At 3 locations you can listen to one of his new songs. Geographical spread: Japan Developer: Scott Halcomb Developer Company: SystemK
Local Book Search
Description: LibraryThing Local Book Search connects you to the “real” world of bookstores, libraries, festivals, fairs and other book-related venues. You can filter by type of venue and distance. All venues link to LibraryThing Local, where you can find detailed information like address, hours, phone number, wifi availability and upcoming events. Venues can be added and edited with a free membership at LibraryThing.com. Geographical spread: international Developer: Michael Bannister Developer Company: LibraryThing.com
ART – 3D layer
Description: Find museums and art galleries in Spain. Geographical Spread: Spain Developer: Pablo Garcia Developer Company: ELIPSE AD
Gogh-mented reality
Description: Het leven en werk van Van Gogh in Nuenen, Noord-brabant, Nederland Geographical spread: Nuenen, Netherlands Developer: Michel Meeuwissen Developer Company: Vrijetijdshuis Brabant
TweetPhoto
Description: Discover photos uploaded to TweetPhoto! Geographical spread: international Developer: Guillermo Proano Developer Company: GPP Software, LLC
TweetJourney
Description: Create and share your journey based on your geotagged Tweets. http://TweetJourney.com Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden Developer: Fredrik Davidsson Developer Company: Teknograd AS
Partyagenda
Description: De Nederlandse augmented partyagenda. Wil je weten welk feestjes en in welk club in de buurt van jou zijn? Wij laten je de feestjes zien op de huidige dag. Maar het is ook mogelijk om een aantal dagen vooruit te kijken welke feestjes er komen (tot aan 14 dagen). Bij sommige feestjes zie je ook de flyer die erbij hoort. Zijn er geen feestjes op de jouw geselecteerde dag, dan laten wij de meest recente feestjes zien. Geographical spread: Netherlands Developer: Fransjo Leihitu
Delta Odry
Description: Ułatwienie nawigacji po wodach Zalewu Szczecińskiego i okolic. It shows every buoy and many navigation lights on the 10 waterways on this waters. It is designed for sailing on this waters, as a backup for traditional ways of navigation, mostly for smaller boats without built in professional devices. Geographical spread: Location Odry Delta, Poland Developer: Grzegorz Motowilczuk Developer Company: PROINFO Marketing & Consulting
Transport
Description: Encuentre estaciones de metro, tren y parkings. Geographical spread: Spain Developer: Pablo Garcia Developer Company: ELIPSE AD
Hotels & holiday homes
Description: Partner of Booking.com and Belvilla. We are the European leader in online hotel bookings and vacation rentals. Use this layer to find your hotel or vacation rental. From hotels and holiday homes, log cabins to lakefront and oceanfront villas to ski slope condos – there’s so much to choose from: more than 57.000 bookable hotels online and we offer over 15,000 online bookable holiday homes in 16 European countries. Geographical spread: international Developer: Tom Schuyten Developer Company: T-Network.BE
Van der Valk Hotels
Description: Van der Valk has over 80 hotels in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Bonaire and the United States. Geographical spread: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, Bonaire and the United States Developer: Fons Sonnemans Developer Company: Objectmap BV
Maya
Description: A message for you. Maya, 2109: http://loveletterstothefuture.blogspot.com/. When key words from the location clues were entered in order , they unlocked the last video! Thanks to everyone that helped unlock them – watch Maya’s final transmission on the site. Let’s hope we can change our world for the better, for our grandchildren – and Maya’s – sake… Geographincal spread: international Developer: Timen Rienstra Developer Company: Triangle Studios
Climate Action Map
Description: ClimateActionMap.org. On this Layar you will be able to learn about initiatives that cities and municipalities around the world are implementing to reduce their climate impact. This Layar will help educate people, companies and governments of the many innovative solutions that are being implemented at the local level to reduce CO2 emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. Geographical spread: US and Denmark (live at COP15 from 7-18 Dec) Developer: Mathijs Gajentaan Developer Company: Winvolve
Copenhagen Layer
Description: See Climate and Environmental facts around Copenhagen Geographical spread: Denmark Status: Pending Review Developer: Johannes la Poutre Developer Company: Squio
Antarctica – International Reserach Stations
Description: The ‘coolest’ Layar possible: Antarctica Research Stations. Discover and Find all current Research Stations on Antarctica. Country Code: Antartica Developer Name: Mathijs Gajentaan Developer Company: Winvolve
AR map
Description: powered by openstreetmap Geographical spread: international Developer: Sascha Hendel Developer Company: archINFORM
más Vigo
Description: La primera aplicación de realidad aumentada para la ciudad de Vigo. Con miles de empresas y servicios localizables rápidamente. Geographical spread: Vigo, Spain Developer: Roberto Vidal Developer Company: MASVIGO
Portal inmobiliario
Description: Oferta inmobiliaria de Bankinter Geographical spread: Spain Developer: José Millares change Developer Company: SIGNO Ingeniería del Territorio
food n’ fashion
Description: this is layer about food and fashion in Bandung Indonesia Geographical spread: Indonesia Developer: V Information Project Developer Company: V Information Project
Tendumi Campings
Description: Guía de campings en España. Geographical spread: Spain Developer: Gorka Esnal Developer Company: Tendumi
Restaurant
Description: Encuentre restaurantes, hamburgueserías, pizzerías, bocaterías cerca de su posición. Geographical spread: Spain Developer: Pablo Garcia Developer Company: ELIPSE AD
TTC – Toronto Bus planner
Description: This layer shows the closest TTC subway & bus stops around you. For each bus stop it will show you the next busses. including destination and route information. Country: Toronto, Canada Developer: Andree Toonk Developer company: Created by NetKnowledge.ca for Toronto
Happy Meet
Description: Flirt & chat with people around you Geographical spread: international Developer: Pablo Garcia Developer Company: ELIPSE AD
Concello de Corcubión
Description: Servizos, elementos turísticos e outros puntos de interese en Corcubión. Geographical spread: Corcubión, North West Spain Developer Name: Francisco Xavier Sotelo Developer Company: Sixtema
Mapa Cultural Galego
Description: Censo de infraestruturas culturais no territorio galego. Cultural locations in Galicia, Spain Geographical spread: Galicia, Spain Developer Name: Francisco Xavier Sotelo Developer Company: Sixtema
AusWiki
Description: Shows wikipedia entries for points of interest around australia. Also allows users to view images and leave feedback. Geographical spread: Australia Developer: James Cole Developer Company: Pallian
Stadtausstellung.at
Description: Firmen und Freiberufler aller Sparten aus der Umgebung Gegraphical spread: Astria Developer: Stefan Grosz Developer Company: stadtausstellung
Tuotteet ja palvelut
Description: Fonecta löytää tuotteet ja palvelut läheltäsi Geographical spread: Finland Developer: Teemu Hänninen Developer Company: Fonecta Oy
Chain of favours
Description: Exchange things and services or sell them. Geographical spread: international Developer: Pablo Garcia Developer Company: ELIPSE AD
Description: Provides a detailed layout of the various public sports fields available in the Dallas area. Geographical spread: Russell Creek Park, Plano, Dallas, US Developer: Rohit Gupta Developer Company: Quasar Solution
We would love to be more in touch with our Layar Content Creators: share with you our thoughts and ideas and give you the opportunity to ask us questions and give us feedback.
For this we will organize a webinar on January 6th at 17.00h Amsterdam time (CET; check here for your local time). Save the date, up to 1000 people can attend. Conceptual, commercial and technical topics will be covered, please let us know in advance if you have specific items you want to discuss you can mail them to info@layar.com How can I attend this webinar?
Yesterday Layar v3 was published in the App Store. After a flood of complaints that the app crashes for many users, we’ve decided to remove the app from the store. Sorry, sorry, sorry.
We had issues already since the very first launch of the iPhone app. Unfortunately these issues were due to bad memory management decisions right from the start, something that we could not easily fix without completely re-engineering the app. There is some old code in there that is buggy and we don’t know exactly where the bug is. Since the app worked fine for 80% of the users (and on all our testing devices), we decided to move on to v3 before we would rebuild the framework of our app. We’ve tested v3 thoroughly internally and did not have any issues with crashes when submitting to the App Store. In fact, we still cannot reproduce the crashes that many of our users are reporting right now.
The percentage of users with crashes has grown too much with the launch of v3 to justify keeping the app online. We don’t want our users to be confronted with an app that is unusable due to systematic crashes. We take great pride in our product and are very serious about delivering high quality to our users and our developer community. We’ve already started re-engeneering the app, but this won’t be finished in a matter of days, rather a matter of weeks.
Our sincere apologies to our developers who put a lot of effort into making great content for Layar v3 that can now only be viewed on Android. We are proud of the layers you made and we will put all our efforts into making them available on the iPhone as soon as possible.
Muzar.org has just launched the new, free and augmented way of sending season greetings.
At the www.muzar.org one can submit the coordinates of the home / house or whatever from the recipient and add a personal message. You can even choose the 3D model you want to place at that location. After completing the form an email will be sent to tell the lucky one he / she has received a 3D card (with a small explaination how they can view the “card”).
Imagine the possibilities of creating, sharing and giving away public or personal messages and 3D objects and pictures.
Spread the word and make this Xmas and new year celebration an augmented one.
We just heard that System K in Japan has launched a very cool campaign with the wellknown japanese hip-hop artist SEEDA.
Seeda will release a new single next week. System K collaborated with him to create a promotional layer. In the week leading up to the CD release fans can visit major locations around Japan (Tokyo Tower, Kobe Mosiac, Sapporo Clock Tower). When fans get close to these wellknown landmarks in Japan, the layer will autotrigger an audio sample of the new single Wisdom. Layar users are the first to hear the new track and are also treated with a special video message from Seeda that is personalized for each location.
Autotriggered actions associated with objects is a feature that is supported by Layar Reality Browser 3.0. Any developer can add an autotrigger to an object. Developers can customize the range (when does the autotrigger need to be activitated) and the action can be customized (play audio, play video, open website, etc). It’s very exciting to see this feature of our platform being used in such a creative way.
So if you are in Japan just search for SEEDA in the Layar Browser and you will find the special promotion layer.
Due to the holidays we will not review your pending layers for publication between 18th of December and the 4th of January. So if you want to publish your layers before Christmas please do this asap.
In time for the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, ClimateActionMap.org is excited to announce a mobile version of the map using the Layar platform. ClimateActionMap.org is a non-profit online platform that allows cities across the globe to share their best practice climate initiatives. Today more than 40 cities around the world have listed their best practice climate initiatives and more are joining each week.
The Climate Action Layer has been launched just in time for the UN Climate Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen where government leaders from more than 100 countries are gathering along with 20.000 participants from non-profits to negotiate a global agreement to curb CO2 emissions. ClimateActionMap.org is presenting the map together with its partners from the US National League of Cities, Local Government Denmark and UN Habitat in order to highlight the importance of local government action in reducing CO2 emissions.
ClimateActionMap.org was launched in June 2009 to help communicate local climate initiatives to a global audience. Sharing our local knowledge and expertise globally is fundamental if we want to address climate change in a serious and timely manner. Our mission is to educate, inform and inspire governments, communities and businesses about the innovative local climate action activities around the world. Local Governments and local initiatives are key factors for creating a successful implementation of any Post-Kyoto agreement.
The ClimateActionMap.org platform is free to use for any city administration in the world. It allows cities to easily upload information, images, video and files about climate initatives using a simple and intuitive web interface. It also allows cities to track and manage their climate initiatives across different city departments and helps communicate climate initiatives to a broad range of stakeholders by generating a city scale map of local climate initiatives.
The Climate Action Layer was developed by Winvolve. Winvolve has developed multiple successful Layars and applications and is one the forefront of new technology. They are Layar representing partner in North-America and work closely together with local and international organizations in concept creation and development of Mobile and Application experiences.
You can visit Winvolve’s website at www.winvolve.com. To read more about the Climate Action Map visit www.climateactionmap.org.
Description: From gadgets to cars, sell and buy any kind of goods on eLay. You can place ads with your phone and manage them on www.elaymm.com. You automatically receive a password by email when you place an ad. Geographical spread: international Developer: Tom Schuyten Developer Company: T-Network.BE
Hot Pepper (グルメ) (Restaurants)
Description: Hot Pepperの検索 Geographical spread: Japan Developer: Scott Halcomb Developer Company: SystemK
Asturias 365 dias
Description: Vive y disfruta de Asturias todos los dias del año, sin perderte nada. Geographical spread: Spain Developer Name: Serafin Manuel Alvarez Zapata Developer Company: Zenit Solutions
Max Hamburgerrestauranger
Description: Hitta närmaste Max Restaurang. Swedish Hamburger Chain Geographical spread: Sweden Developer: Ali Vonsensey
Splaterz
Description: Add your own points of interest via twitter or our mobile client and view them on your Layar browser in real time.. – splat your world Geographical spread: international Developer: Richard Spence Developer Company: Bluetrail
BlooSee
Short Description: For sea-lovers, by sea-lovers. Data can be added on bloosee.com Geographical spread: international Developer Name: Marc Puig Developer Company: BlooSee
LOTTERY
Description: Encuentre las administraciones de lotería más cercanas a su posición. Find lottery offices near you. Geographical spread: Spain Developer Name: Pablo Garcia Developer Company: ELIPSE AD
AC HOTELES
Description: Encuentre nuestros hoteles en cualquier momento Geographical spread: Italy, Portugal, Spain Developer: Pablo Garcia Developer Company: ELIPSE AD
Serve the City (Vrijwilligerswerk)
Description: De volgende Serve the Cities vinden plaats op: 22 december en 9 januari en je kan je nu inschrijven! Geographical spread: Netherlands Developer: Naos, Wilbrink Developer Company: aFrogleap
Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre
Description: A new way to experience the shoppes at Victoria Gardens! Geographical spread: US Developer Name: Brad Leege Developer company: Winvolve
SNS Bank
Description: De dichtstbijzijnde winkel en geldautomaat van SNS Bank Geographical spread: Netherlands Developer Name: Michel van Velde Developer Company: One Shoe mobile
Booli
Description: Swedish real estate data plotted on layar. Geographical spraid: SE Developer Name: Kalle Nilvér Developer Company: Booli Search Technologies AB
INDONESIAinYourHand
Description: Indonesia’s Tourism & Heritage Guide Geographical spread: Indonesia Developer: Amiranto Adi Wibowo Developer Company: JSPOT mobile
Description: Locate your friends and enter your favorite places! – enter your position via the layer filter settings or http://www.whereami.es Geographical spread: International Developer Name: Pablo Garcia Developer Company: ELIPSE AD
This is just a quick post to mention one of the new features in the Layar 3.0 Publishing site: Required Features.
Just to be clear, – all of your v3 layers are handled gracefully on v2 clients. Any v3 features you use will be downgraded the best we can. So, for instance, if your layer is trying to use a flexible radius, but someone is using the v2 client, the range will be set to 1500 (the default). The client will not use flexible radius because it can’t.
If a v3 functionality is crucial for the layer to work properly, you can use the ‘Required Features’ pop-down to select which features you require. If the user is using a version of the client that does not support that feature, the layer will not appear in any lists.
I hope this clarifies the Required Features list a bit.
A few weeks ago we announced the Layar Engagement Competition: Any developer who dropped a great layar engagement idea which goes way beyond offering a functional ‘where is’ service before December 6th, midnight, entered the competition. We would like to thank all developers that dropped their ideas (over 60 in total) and we proud to announce the nominees for best Layar Engagement Idea.
Seasonsgreetings
WISDOM
Local Book Search
ART – 3D layer
Gogh-mented reality
TweetPhoto
TweetJourney
Partyagenda
Delta Odry
Transport
Hotels & holiday homes
Van der Valk Hotels
Maya
Climate Action Map
Copenhagen Layer
Antarctica – International Reserach Stations
AR map
más Vigo
Portal inmobiliario
food n’ fashion
Tendumi Campings
Restaurant
TTC – Toronto Bus planner
Happy Meet
Concello de Corcubión
Mapa Cultural Galego
AusWiki
Stadtausstellung.at
Tuotteet ja palvelut
Chain of favours
Reklamy 3D
Dallas Area Sports Fields
eLay Mobile Marketplace
Hot Pepper (グルメ) (Restaurants)
Asturias 365 dias
Max Hamburgerrestauranger
Splaterz
BlooSee
LOTTERY
AC HOTELES
Serve the City (Vrijwilligerswerk)
Victoria Gardens Shopping Centre
SNS Bank
Booli
INDONESIAinYourHand
Uitinbrabant.nl
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