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Welcome to Wikitude, the Augmented Reality (AR) platform which allows you to browse the world and helps you discover information about places and points of interest around you.
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.
PRESS RELEASE: Mobilizy Unveils AR Navigation System
Mobilizy Unveils Augmented Reality Navigation System
SALZBURG, Austria: AUGUST 28TH 2009. Mobilizy GmbH reveals a preview of it’s augmented reality navigation system, the first fully functional mobile AR navigation system available for the Android platform. Wikitude Drive was developed by the Mobilizy Research & Development group in Salzburg, Austria, to satisfy the curiosity of the developers to see if it was feasible to combine real-time navigation with mobile augmented reality. The result of this quest is Wikitude Drive, a fully-functional, light weight navigational system which overlays point-to-point directions on a camera-view, without the need for maps.
Wikitude Drive boasts the following 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;
o (a mobile internet connection is necessary to access data while in motion) - * Peer-to-peer navigational functions
o 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.
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