The Brighkite layar lets users see real-time digital information on top of the real-world locations
The location-based social networking site, Brightkite, has released a Brightkite layar for the Augmented Reality (AR) Layar Reality Browser 2.0. Brightkite already lets users keep up to date with what their friends have been doing and where they’ve been doing it in two dimensions via a customizable real-time stream and map view. But now the new Brightkite layar adds a third dimension to its social networking application for Android phones.
Using the Brightkite application on the Layar Reality Browser, users can now look at the world around them through their phone’s camera to see real-time digital information superimposed over the top of the real-world locations. The application uses a combination of camera, compass and GPS to see friends’ posts, photos and locations superimposed exactly “on” the location they were made. As the camera is turned in different directions, the graphics change to match the lens’ movements and the user sees all their friends’ Brightkite data revealed around them.
The Brightkite layar is only one of many data layers that are available for the Layar Reality Browser. These include layars that display Wikipedia entries when the camera is pointed at geographic points of interest and layars that display real estate listings that are viewable. The program already comes preinstalled on the Samsung Galaxy in the Netherlands, with plans that the iPhone will follow.
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