Want to feel safe? Find out if you’re in a safe area with the SpotCrime layer. ReportSee created SpotCrime on the notion that information is power. Next to their website, they launched a paid layer with crime maps, showing crime incident data around you, like crime alerts and reports of shootings, robberies, assaults, thefts, burglaries, arsons and vandalism. We talked to Colin Drane from ReportSee to find out how we can feel safer by using the layer.

Why a Spotcrime layer? Colin: “The SpotCrime layer allows you to see an augmented reality view of the crimes that have happened in their current location. This allows them to be more aware of their surroundings and helps to prevent becoming a victim. This can be especially useful if you are on vacation in an area that you’ve never visited before. It’s important to know what’s going on around you, and to avoid unsafe areas when you can.” What can we user do with it? Colin: “Use the augmented reality view or the list view to learn about crimes in a certain radius around your location. If one of the crime icons is selected, you can read more specific details about the crime event and follow the link to the SpotCrime website.”

‘Why is it worth my $1.95?’ Colin: “It’s only a one time fee, after which you can use the layer at home and any place you travel and become knowledgeable about safe locations. You can’t put a price on peace of mind!” Other things you’d like to share? Colin: “Sign up for free email alerts at www.spotcrime.com”

The layer currently covers the 300 largest US cities, main cities in Canada and The Netherlands and London.

Last weeks we have seen two commercials on TV that include Layar. One is from Samsung in France and the other is from LG in the Netherlands. It’s great to see handsetmanufacturers embrace Augmented Reality to promote their devices. We hope to see more of these commercials in the future. Have a look at the videos below to see how they integrated Layar.

We are very proud to announce that earlier this week the 300th layer has been launched: Places.

The layer enables you to discover tourist locations around you. You can add your own places, send your pictures and post your comments. You can also vote for your favorite POIs.

The layer is available in Australia, Austria, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States.

The layer was made by Pablo Garcia-Morato, Jefe de proyectos, from Elipse AD in Spain. We asked him a few questions:

You have made the 300th layer, congratulations!! What is your first reaction on that?

Well it was really a surprise because although I follow all Layer posts and new coming layers, I did not realise about the counter. And it’s good to see how Layar is growing so fast with all those incredible developers working hard every day!

What do you think is the coolest part of your layer?

I tried to join many of the Layar new features with the traditional geo-location, so apart from just knowing which places he can visit in the area, the user can also interact adding his comments and recommendations, voting for places or creating custom POIs of cool places to visit.

What are your plans for the future layer plans?

In particular with this layer, we hope to improve 3D sceneries, I mean, by now only the POI is a 3D object, but we would like to show how lived people in some places and maybe why not, imagine which could be the future of a certain location.

In general in this Layar world, I think 3D+AR opens for us, developers, a huge world of opportunities trying to let users experience things that until now have been considered science fiction.

Pablo, thanks for your answers and we wish you and Elipse good luck with your plans! Of course we want to thank all of you who developed and launched their layers before as well for publishing such cool content, making the Layar Reality Browser what it is now. Keep up the good work!

Seasonsgreetings

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

Reklamy 3D

Description: Możliwości platformy Layar w wykonaniu proinfo-reality.pl
Country: Poland
Developer: Grzegorz Motowilczuk
Developer Company: PROINFO Marketing & Consulting

Dallas Area Sports Fields

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

eLay Mobile Marketplace

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

Where Am I?

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