junaio 2.0 with indoor GPS

The press release is out for a few days already, but I think now it’s the best time to share the news with you – because Peter (CTO of metaio) is sharing his fresh impressions on junaio 2.0 in a cold, but sunny Munich in a new video.

If you happen to be living under a rock, here a short abstract on what junaio is:

junaio is a mobile augmented reality platform that allows users and developers the ability to create content channels in the real world. Users can flip through channels like entertainment, nightlife, travel and many others and see information digitally displayed around by simply pointing their phone. With junaio’s open API, developers can create state of the art augmented reality applications.

The most important two things: there is an open API to add content or logic, e.g. for your own AR location based games, etc. plus there is an indoor alternative for bad signal GPS: metaio calls it LLA-markers that encode your lat/long position plus height. Let me quote again:

One feature which makes junaio 2.0 outstanding is the possibility to use it indoors. By combining the GPS- and compass-based geo-information with the so called LLA-marker-technology (patent pending) users now can experience augmented reality not only in the world outside but even within buildings. This feature can be used e.g. for museums where visitors can point their camera on the info next to the exhibits and gather information directly on their mobile phone.

It’s a great concept to overwrite and lock your (missing) GPS signal by a scanned marker. Peter? Is it possible to use it through all Apps on the phone? :-) On Android it could be a module, to be reused by other apps. Hmm. Anyway, enough! Now for the video:

Peter and Frank give a nice teaser at the end (Damn you, cliffhanger!): seems they might soon release their android version of junaio, that actually allows video-based tracking (already implementing the markerless approach, that was presented at metaio’s last fair in October 2009).

I’m curious. :-)

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