Layar
Did you think augmented reality was not available on your Nokia mobile? If you download Layar , you will see that it was not like that. We are talking about one of the best known applications that work with this system that put everything around us on the phone screen (with the help of thecamera, of course) and enrich the environment with useful information.
Layar, which is a word that plays with the sense of layers, makes our mobile serves as a 3D compass to be able to locate locals, establishments, services and places of interest just by scheduling searches.This is a free application, available for mobiles equipped with Symbian 3 (Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia C6-01 and Nokia C7, as well as upcoming Nokia X7 and Nokia E6), as well as Series 60 (for Nokia N97 and Nokia N97 Mini, in this case).
The operation of Layar is very simple, although no less surprising. The magic comes from crossing several of the systems that participate in the implementation of Layar On the one hand, the camera , which is essential. With it, we will orient the view that will present us with the screen of the mobile Once there, the phone itself, with the help of the digital compass, will guide the position of the user, which will intersect with his location (thanks to the data by triangulation of the GPS sensor and the data antennas ).After all this, the screen will be ready to mount on reality all the information that we require, which will come from the information that we will obtain through the mobile Internet connection.
Among the layers that we can program, the combinations are of the most varied: restaurants, cinemas, gas stations, cocktail bars, shops, ATMs, hotels, official buildings, monuments, etc. Each layer will be a search term, which will paint a series of dots on our environment that will conform in one way or another to the definition of that layer. We will only have to equip the view of each layer that interests us and we will obtain all the search terms in a map 3D that will reveal the direction to follow, as well as the distance that we will have to cover until we reach our destination.
