The World’s First Augmented Reality Browser. Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone.
Layar is available for the T-Mobile G1,HTC Magic and other Android phones in Android Market for the Netherlands. Other countries will be added later. Planned roll-out dates for other countries are not known yet.
How do you use Layar?
By holding the phone in front of you like a camera,information is displayed on top of the camera display view.
For all points of interest which are displayed on the screen,information is shown at the bottom of the screen.
What do you see in the screen?
On top of the camera image (displaying reality) Layar adds content layers. Layers are the equivalent of webpages in normal browsers. Just like there are thousands of websites there will be thousands of layers. One can easily switch between layers by selecting another via the menu button,pressing the logobar or by swiping your finger across the screen.
We offer companies the possibility to publish their own layer in our browser(through an API). Currently several companies have already signed up for Layar and will publish their own content in their branded layer soon. We will share with you soon which layers will be available in your country.
Features of Layar
Layar has some cool features which include:
- Switching easily between layers
- Radar widget to give you an overview
- Logobar to indicate which layer is active
- Link through to mobile websites
- Integrated map view
- Custom filters for each layers (like distance,category,search box)
Who is the team behind Layar?
Layar is developed by SPRXmobile. A Mobile Innovation Company run by Raimo van der Klein,Claire Boonstra &Maarten Lens-FitzGerald.
