Mobilizy Ships Developer API & Updates World Browser
Mobilizy GmbH is pleased to announce the shipment of the Beta Release 1.0.0 of our WIKITUDE API for the development of augmented reality experiences on the Android platform. The WIKITUDE API enables any Android developer to seamlessly integrate the award winning WIKITUDE Augmented Reality (AR) camera view within any custom Android application.
WIKITUDE Developer API:
Build your own Augmented Reality application using the WIKITUDE Developer API. Our API is a powerful application-programming interface, which allows for the open development of marker-less AR (Augmented Reality) experiences. The WIKITUDE Developer API package contains the following:
- WIKITUDE Developer API documentation
- WIKITUDE AR API javadocs.zip
- WIKITUDE AR Intent.jar
- Sample application – BasicOpenARDEMO.zip
The WIKITUDE Developer API is a potential game-changer in the emerging field of mobile augmented reality. By providing an application-programming interface Mobilizy is taking a lead in unleashing a wave of innovation within the nascent field of mobile AR within the design and development community.
Examples of AR applications using the WIKITUDE API are:
- Enhance existing applications with an AR camera view;
- Interactive virtual/augmented media at key places of interest;
- Embedded media in the physical world (text, audio, & video);
- Massively multiuser ubiquitous mobile augmented reality games;
- Geo-graphically specific Job opportunities
- Real-estate listings.
Mobilizy GmbH is currently working out a key system for the final release of the WIKITUDE API that clearly lay out terms and conditions of the WIKITUDE API usage.
Please contact Mobilizy if you would like to start developing with WIKITUDE API as part of your innovative AR projects: developers@wikitude.me
WIKITUDE World Browser Updates:
The WIKITUDE World Browser has also been enhanced with the AR snapshot feature originally found in the Premium version of WIKITUDE; this new feature allows for easy screen-capture and sharing of your augmented reality view with others. The Premium version of the WIKITUDE World Browser has the additional feature of adding a title and subtitle to the AR snapshot.
About Mobilizy:
Mobilizy is an early pioneer in commercial augmented reality and the creator of Wikitude, which is the first practical augmented reality (AR) mobile application. Wikitude gives the user data about their surroundings, nearby landmarks, and other points of interest by overlaying information on the real-time camera view of a smart-phone.
Mobilizy GmbH engages in the research and in-house development of location-based services and augmented (mixed) reality experiences for smart-phones. Mobilizy is one of the leading innovators in developing new methods and applications for data acquisition and exchange in the emerging market of augmented reality.
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