De Leguanen - Alternate reality game trailer

De Leguanen is een Nederlandse Alternate Reality Game. De spelers van deze game gingen begin 2011 aan de hand van raadsels over het erfgoed van Breda op zoek naar smartphones. Om zo de opa van Eef te redden uit de handen van het privacy verwoestende data mining bedrijf, Panopticom.

The Iguanas is a dutch Alternate Reality Game. The players of this game started early 2011 on the basis of puzzles about the cultural heritage of Breda. The searching for smartphones. So they can save the grandfather of Eef from the destructive hands of the privacy data mining company, Panopticom.

Playing the GoGame app with Veronica Belmont

Veronica Belmont is a technology and gaming-centric video host based out of San Francisco.
An avid gamer and social-networking junkie (with over 1 million Twitter followers), Veronica often speaks about her interests at conferences and panels.

How much of what is where?

Even serious data-to-information converters SAP get into Geotagging.
There's POI all over the place!

Everything you always wanted to know about your current location but were unable to ask.

Founder Matt Galligan shows Simple Geo's new iPhone app that overlays lots of location-based data on top of a map. SimpleGeo makes building location-based apps like these easier.

The main screen shows you the names of your area, the local weather forecast,intersections and coördinates. The Places data in my area are sometimes outdated, but the Wikipedia, Project Noah, Geonames and Flickr layers work fine. Fast and accurate. A useful app!

Thanks to Robert Scoble for this piece.

New released Location-Based Games to Discover Cities on your iPhone

In this iPhone app, the player undertakes a mystical journey through the city. At various stops, the player has to search for clues and solve puzzles. The goal of the game: to find the final destination, where the mystery is revealed completely.

The content of City Secrets depends on the city. In Amsterdam, you help a retired police officer to solve an old murder case. In Barcelona, the quest will lead you to the lost sketchbook of Gaudi. And in Paris, an old picture book takes you to Napoleon’s hidden treasures. The game will take you to some of the city’s highlights, as well as some less well-known, but equally interesting places.

This game was developed by LaMosca

Find free products with H&M's Augmented Reality app for iPhone

GoldRun is an app that enables users to locate, interact with and take photos of GPS-linked virtual objects positioned in the real world, coupled with an adaptive and easy to use CMS. The app is designed to drive traffic to physical and online destinations, increase product sales, enhance brand engagement and bolster viral impact.

GoldRun users can take pictures alongside virtual objects and immediately post these photos to Facebook. By helping brands tap into this sharing impulse, the platform turns social networks into even more effective distribution channels as GoldRun users share images of themselves interacting with everything from scenes in blockbuster films, to iconic sports figures and the season’s must have fashion items.

GoldRun provides a more interactive and customizable approach to location-based advertising than check-in games like Foursquare and Gowalla. Campaigns, in addition to distributing special offers, include an option for users to create interesting photos (items in the H&M campaign, for instance, were positioned in a way in which they could be virtually “tried on”). Users share these photos through their Facebook profiles, which is more valuable for the brand than shared check-in information.

Given how eager brands have been to adopt location-based marketing through check-in apps, it’s not a surprise that many are eager to run campaigns on the GoldRun app. VP of Business Development Shailesh Rao calls it “V-Commerce. Rao says that more than 40 companies from various industries have approached the as of now self-funded startup about running a campaign. It will be interesting to see if consumers respond with equivalent enthusiasm.

First Location Based Game for iPhone and Android Launches New Version

Parallel Kingdom is the first massively multi-player role playing game (MMORPG) to use the GPS capabilities of smartphones to incorporate a player’s actual location into the game. Parallel Kingdom can be played on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Google Android devices.

The first version, Parallel Kingdom – The Age of Exploration, was introduced October 31, 2008. The second version, Parallel Kingdom – The Age of Gathering was launched March 28, 2009 and had over 75,000 active player accounts when it ended November 9, 2009. The game and its popularity have improved dramatically with each new Age, and PerBlue expects the upcoming version to continue that trend.

To find out more about the app, you can watch this tutorial.

Augmented Architecture in Rotterdam

Het NAi heeft een mooi museum... maar soms vinden ze die vier muren een beetje benauwend. Eigenlijk vinden ze het niet meer van deze tijd dat je altijd naar ons toe moet komen om iets moois te zien.

Deze layar geeft een blik op dat wat er niet is: gebouwen, straten, pleinen die zijn verdwenen, nooit zijn aangelegd en die nog moeten verrijzen. Dat kan nu, met UAR: urban augmented reality op je smartphone.

World Browser

Augmented reality from Wikitude
Available for iPhone and Android.