Today Mobilizy GmbH reveals a preview of it’s augmented reality navigation system. They claim to introduce the first fully functional mobile Augmented Reality (AR) navigation system. The software should be available for the iPhone and Android phones. Wikitude Drive was developed by the Mobilizy Research & Development group in Salzburg, Austria. Wikitude Drive is a fully-functional, light weight navigational system which overlays point-to-point directions on a camera-view, without the need for maps.
The developers published a list of features:
- Mobile AR navigation, similar to a heads up display (HUD);
- Fully functional, map-less navigation;
- POI 2 POI navigation;
- Integrated voice commands (additional text-to-speech engine required);
- World wide navigational data which is accessed in real-time from the internet; (a mobile internet connection is necessary to access data while in motion)
- Peer-to-peer navigational functions (Social navigational features will be implemented in future releases)
- Interfaces with existing navigational APIs (for example: NavTeq, Map24, TeleAtlas)
- Launching for Android and iPhone soon.
Mobilizy is a Austrian-based company specializing in software for smartphones. Their focus is on location-based service solutions and augmented reality. Currently they are concentrating on Google’s phone platform Android. Android is a complete, open mobile phone software stack. It includes everything a manufacturer or operator needs to build a mobile phone.
[via http://www.mobilizy.com/drive]
