The iPhone 3.1 update enables a new realm of augmented reality iPhone apps, which use the iPhones GPS, compass and accelerometer to impose a virtual layer of information over a view of the real world as seen from your iPhones camera.

UDR Inc. has released its first augmented-reality (AR) apartment-search application for the iPhone (3GS) Google Android. In keeping with UDR, augmented reality revolves around a technology that uses the iPhone’s built-in “spatial awareness components.” Those include the GPS, the accelerometer, and the compass. Together, the hardware parts superimpose digital information on top of what is vie...

Freeverse has announced the Fairy Trails App, an augmented reality game for iPhone and iPod touch, leveraging the latest technology in iPhone OS 3.1 including camera and compass access! Shake the device to power the detector and then scan your surroundings for magical creatures. Fairy Trails uses the camera and compass of iPhone 3GS to merge

Written by Stan Schroeder It was only yesterday that we pined about the lack of augmented reality applications for the iPhone 3GS, a device that definitely has everything such an app would require (camera with video capabilities, GPS, accelerometer, compass), and now we got one. Original story at Mashable! . View our complete collection of news and blogs, plus related videos, photos and more at Ge...

Layar, which came out only 3 months ago and has received a hell of a lot of hype, is adding 3D capabilities to their application this November with the launch of Layar 3.0. Thanks to OpenGL, the accelerometer, GPS chip and compass inside mobile devices today, Layar is able to draw 3D objects in real time over a specific coordinate. The CEO, Raimo van der Klein, his the nail on the head when he say...

robotvision augmented reality is an exciting new way to explore the world around you. Using the accelerometer and compass technology of the iPhone 3GS, along with new camera capabilities of the 3.1 OS update, you can discover content and locations around you like never before. Search for nearby locations, restaurants, points of interest -- you name it! All using the power of Bing local search.... ...

Robotvision augmented reality is an exciting new way to explore the world around you. Using the accelerometer and compass technology of the iPhone 3GS, along with new camera capabilities of the 3.1 OS update, you can discover content and locations around you like never before. Search for nearby locations, restaurants, points of interest -- you name

Earlier this week, the Augmented Traffic team released version 1.0.3 of their Augmented Traffic Views app for the Android system. This app is the latest in the wave of augmented reality apps, apps which overlay the android camera and blur the line between the real world and the virtual world. The Augmented Traffic app is available in approximately 25 metro locations, and uses the city’s traf...

ZAGAT TO GO is in the version 3.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch users. Developed in partnership with Handmark, the update app comes with an augmented reality twist, while at the same time keeping its core feature providing diners with useful information about restaurants. In addition, theres the new offline sync feature that allows users

Robotvision is an augmented reality app for the iPhone 3GS that uses the iPhone accelerometer, compass, and the OS 3.1 features to find stores and other listings around you, using the data feeds from BING.com, making it the first iPhone app to incorporate Bing on an iPhone. Robotvision finds any points of interest with Bing