Share Great news for the augmented reality development community and emerging technology companies. The eastern Washington state based company Gravity Jack has just secured $250,000 in investment for an upcoming augmented reality application for 2010. Gravity Jack was founded in 2009 by Luke and Jennifer Richey. According to their website they are armed with the number one [...]

Share The breakout technology this year so far at 2010 CES is an apparent device that integrates real world hardware (flying quadricopter), a mounted webcam, an iPhone, and an Augmented Reality game called hte AR.Drone. The AR.Drone is designed and developed by Parrot a Paris, France based company that specializes in wireless devices for mobile phones. Parrot currently employs [...]

Share We first wrote about Junaio earlier when they released the first version of their iPhone app. Junaio is a 3D mobile augmented reality community or social network. It is developed by Munich, Germany based company metaio. Now Junaio has launched its version 1.5 for the iPhone app store. According to the Junaio website there are 3 [...]

Share Wikitude just announced on their blog via their twitter account that their augmented reality application will be available on “millions” of Nokia mobile devices with the release of the 3rd version of the S60 Symbian software platform. According to Wikipedia the S60 Symbian platform currently amongst the most-used smartphone platforms in the world. Wikitude currently supports [...]

Share An interesting announcement yesterday in regards to the venture capital funding for a company that is behind an augmented reality iphone application. Tonchidot Corporation a Japan based  debuted the Sekai Camera at TechCrunch50 in 2008 which is an augmented reality based iPhone application. Now they have secured a $4 million funding from DCM and Itochu [...]

Share MOUNTAIN VIEW – December 6th, 2009 – Peter Meier, CTO of metaio, announced at today’s AR Development Camp the opening of its junaio API to developers. Starting Monday, developers can use the new interface to build their own applications that interact with the junaio platform. The open API will include features that allow users to select [...]