Junaio, Metaio’s free Augmented Reality Browser for mobile devices, is available for download in the Android Market and a new vesion will soon be available at the Apple App store as well.
The latest version allows users to take and submit images of objects to a centralized server, where these images are identified using software and a result is returned. For example, a user could take a picture of a book and submit that image for decoding. The response returned could be the book title or other information about the book.
As you might expect, this approach is a bit more complex than tagging items with 2D barcodes, which return a web page. The Junaio approach uses image recognition and object tracking to identify an object through the phone’s camera, access object relevant information through visual search and then virtually “glue” such information displays onto the object itself.
By moving the object or the camera the user is able to intuitively interact with the “glued on” augmented reality layer in order to navigate through information, rotate 3D displays, issue game commands or provide feedback.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Latest Version of Junaio Augmented Reality App Now at Android Market
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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