Augmented Reality (Mash Up)

Twitter + GPS + I phone

It all started last month with TwittARound, an application for the iPhone 3GS that uses the GPS, compass and camera to show where Tweets are coming from. As the stunning video below shows, Tweets are overlaid on the landscape, augmenting your view of the world.

A still from Twittaround, the original augmented reality Twitter search appLess than a month ago, a fascinating, if slightly creepy, mobile app called Twittaround launched — overlaying nearby tweets onto a smartphone camera.The concept was intriguing enough to spark immediate competition: SPRXMobile, the company behind the augmented reality browser Layar, is partnering with Tweetmondo, which handles local Twitter search, to build it.The partners are offering slots for alpha testers on the Android phone and plan to release an iPhone version later this year.The alliance makes sense: SPRXMobile is trying to add more location-sensitive content to its mobile phone browser. Augmented reality browsers work by overlaying information over a live camera feed in a smartphone. (Imagine walking around your neighborhood, holding your camera up and seeing real estate listings pop-up over nearby buildings in your viewfinder.) The more data — such as local restaurant reviews and tweets — that SPRXMobile can include, the more useful Layar becomes. For Tweetmondo, augmented reality Twitter search makes their service seem more immediate. It might be a boon to tweeting local vendors and small businesses too. Amsterdam-based SPRXMobile is angel-funded.Below is a video explaining the Layar augmented reality browser:And here’s a still of Tweetmondo’s current service:

Augmented reality applications, where live streaming video is overlaid with data in real-time, is coming with iPhone 3.1, and here’s a demo Twitter client to show yet another example about how this may be the next great killer app, or the next great killed-by-hype. Either way, we have only one question: is this how Skynet and the Matrix will find and terminate Twitter users first?Tweets: 24 Source: www.theiphoneblog.com Category: news Tags: #iphone, cool, demo, real, thing, world

So this a little bit old, but we're just seeing it after Twitter's chief scientist Abdur Chowdhury (who came over in the Summize acquisition last year) tweeted about it last week. Check out the video at the bottom of this post for TwittARound, a new augmented reality Twitter app for the iPhone 3GS. It looks pretty damn slick.While there are no shortage of Twitter iPhone apps out there, this one is different because it uses a combination of the device's camera and the iPhone 3GS's compass feature. Basically, you fire up the app and it opens your device's camera lens, allowing you to see whatever you're pointing the device at. Overlaid on this live image are icons of Twitter users to show those in close proximity to you who are tweeting. And below the camera is a Twitter feed of those people's updates.But what's really cool is that when you move the iPhone around, the compass recognizes you're turning and loads new tweets based on the direction you're pointed in. It also shows how far away those people are.

Watching video "TwittARound"

This is a video of the first beta version of TwittARound - an augmented reality Twitter viewer on the iPhone.

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Bevor ich mich nun eine Woche in den Urlaub verabschiede und mich wohl ausschließlich über Twitter melden werde, gibt es noch eine interessante bald erscheinende iPhone Applikation die Augmented Reality mit Twitter verbindet: TwitARoundThis is a video of the first beta version of TwittARound - an augmented reality Twitter viewer on the iPhone 3GS. It [...]