Archive for February, 2010
By Maurice on February 15th 2010
Barcelona, February 15th 2010. Augmented Reality (AR) platform provider Layar announces today the possibility for producers and publishers of AR content to offer their experiences for sale. In addition, Layar reached agreement with one of the top 3 mobile handset manufacturers for a global distribution partnership, which will bring Layar capable phones to the mass market. This will enable tens of millions of people to experience Layar AR content on their mobile phones in 2010.
By Maurice on February 15th 2010
Layar has been judged the winner of two prizes at the Mobile Premier Awards, at Mobile World Congress. Layar was voted the Best Start Up in Marketing and Best Start Up in Entertainment. The Mobile Peer Awards is a key event organized around the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. A jury of industry experts chose Layar from over 90 leading Mobile Startups, and we are honored to be the only company to win two awards.
By Maurice on February 14th 2010
John Sietsma is a game developer who is creating a game on the Layar platform called Jewel Collector. This game, which is still in development, is the first of it’s kind and will be demo’d at Mobile World Congress by Layar.
The purpose of the game is to collect as many points as possible. Points can be earned by collecting jewels which are scattered around the MWC exhibition area. You can collect a jewel by walking up to it. Every hour a new round is started and winners of the hourly rounds can be seen on a score board.
By maarten on February 13th 2010
Want to see what Layar looks like, hear how to get started developing or just talk to us and get a cool demo. You can see us walking around with the blue layar bags or catch up with us at:
By marjolein on February 12th 2010
SCREENSHOT LAYER (3D) – international
Valentijn – Netherlands
Zenbu NZ – New Zealand
InMob – Venta – Spain
VCUB – Bordeaux, France
Kunst op straat – Nijmegen, Netherlands
Discount Hotel Finder – UK
LAYAR DEVELOPERS – international
Mapa Zdravlja – The Health Layer – Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia
doomos – international
The Match – international
Previsite - France and US
POVEZI.com – Balkan
pkt.pl – Polish Yellow Pages – Poland
Oxylane Campus – Villeneuve d’Ascq (Lille) France
Urban Farm – international
By Maurice on February 11th 2010
Last weeks we worked hard to improve our client and we have some updates in place.
We improved the start-up time of our application and the lighting of 3D objects within Layar.
The biggest update from our side is the support of local languages. We now support the following languages: English, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Russian and Turkish
By Maurice on February 10th 2010
After a lot of questions and activity on our google groups we decide to create a tutorial that is fully focused on 3D. This tutorial will take you through the basic principles of 3D modeling and how to get your 3D models in a layer.
Besides that we also learned a lot in the past couple of weeks. We used all the questions and feedback that we received in our tips and tricks topic within the tutorial.
If this tutorial still doesn’t answer your 3D related questions please join our google groups or send an email to developers@layar.com
By marjolein on February 2nd 2010
YouTube - international
Samsung Football Pubs – United Kingdom
Snowman 3D - international
AndalucíaPeople – Andalucía Spain
Edukares – Argentina
WA FuelWatch – Western Australia
Winecode Enocultura Mobile – Italy
Student Life – international
Tranvia – Alicante – Spain
Rento – www.rento.gr – Greece
Impfarzt-Suche DE – Germany
Architecture 3D – international
Ziekenhuizen in Nederland – Netherlands
GGD in Nederland – Netherlands
Stripwinkels in NL – Netherlands
Barclays – United Kingdom
ZorgRadar – Netherlands
shackbox – international
By Maurice on February 2nd 2010
We are always excited to see third parties developing useful tools and services on top of the Layar open platform. One of them is the newly released Hoppala Layerserver.
Hoppala Layerserver is a cloud POI hosting service for third party content providers. The basic idea is to free content providers from creating and maintaining their own Layar webservice code. It provides you with an easy way to integrate your existing Google map into Layar. But it can also import different file formats like KML, CSV, XML or Excel. The Hoppala website shows several different kinds of content integration.
By Maurice on February 2nd 2010
This year we will attend the 2010 Mobile World Congress which will be held 15-18 February, in Barcelona Spain.
At this congress you can meet-up with our founders and head of customer development on a daily basis between 12 and 1 at la Font Magica where we will organize a small picnic.
Don’t forget to bring your own lunch since we are still a small start-up ; )
