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NEW YORK, NY and LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwired - Jun 18, 2014) - Blippar, the leading mobile image-recognition platform for brands, advertisers and publishers, today announced the acquisition ...

*It's so interesting that Augmented Reality outfits have turned away from suspending 3d icons in 3d spaces, and gone into what are basically consumer computer-vision apps. If you define "augmented ...

Layar is one of the most high-profile augmented reality apps, but until now, it's only been available on iPhone and Android. Now another smart-phone OS has been added to the mix: Symbian. The Layar ...

Some consolidation — or augmentation, if you will — in the world of augmented reality. Blippar — an image recognition platform used in digital advertising — has acquired Layar, an augmented reality ...

Layar today announced a new component for its Layar augmented reality browser called Layar Vision. The chief benefit introduced with Layar Vision is that it allows mobile phones to recognize up to 50 ...

You’ve heard a lot about Augmented Reality recently, but what is it–and why exactly should you care about the technology? We spoke with Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, one of the founders of Layar, an ...

iPhone/Android: Layar, the mobile app that overlays data markers over what your phone camera sees, hit its 3.0 release in a big way. The new release features 3-D objects, multiple layers at once, and ...

Augmented reality and wearable technology go hand-in-hand, so it’s with not too much surprise that we’ve just learnt that Layar‘s augmented reality app is now available to download for Google Glass.

Layar combines GPS, camera, and compass to identify your surroundings and overlay information on screen, in real time. It is available for Android now and it will be available for iPhone soon, but ...