Remember those Lego kiosks that show off what’s inside a Lego box with a 3D rendering? The company behind those displays has a lot more in store. Or rather, planned for your mobile phone. metaio launched an iPhone browser a couple months back called junaio that’s designed to provide augmented reality features whenever you look through an iPhone camera lens. (The company has a developer contest going on now.) This week, metaio also launched its Android version of the browser in closed beta for developers. And the new release includes something metaio describes as natural feature tracking. Like the Lego kiosks, this new feature allows users to look at certain images and see them rendered in 3D. Words don’t do it justice, however. Take a look at the video demo embedded above to see just how cool this application is.
From the metaio press release:
Peter Meier, the CTO sees junaio on its way to becoming an “augmented reality experience platform”. junaio provides unique features, which emphasize AR`s capabilities to provide fascinating user experiences. Because Android allows access to analyze the videostream, the Android version will be the first free and open mobile platform to provide natural feature tracking to the developer community. “We expect these capabilities to revolutionize outdoor or print advertising, packaging and mobile gaming”, says Peter Meier.