I was curious about how the various mobile AR, GPS+compass apps are faring, so I did a quick and dirty channel check in the App Store and compiled the following table. I think it’s pretty interesting data. A few caveats: this is a snapshot in time, ~7.30am PT on 30 Sept 2009, it’s for the US App Store only, it’s iPhone only, and the apps are listed in no particular order. If anyone wants to do a similar roundup for Android AR apps, that would be outstanding. Other countries (I’m waving at you, air-taggy Japan) welcome too, just drop your tidbits or links in the comments section.<\/p>\n
Update 9\/30: added direct links<\/em> to the iTunes App Store<\/p>\n I was curious about how the various mobile AR, GPS+compass apps are faring, so I did a quick and dirty channel check in the App Store and compiled the following table. I think it’s pretty interesting data. A few caveats: this is a snapshot in time, ~7.30am PT on 30 Sept 2009, it’s for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lightninglaboratories.com\/tcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lightninglaboratories.com\/tcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lightninglaboratories.com\/tcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lightninglaboratories.com\/tcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lightninglaboratories.com\/tcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.lightninglaboratories.com\/tcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"http:\/\/www.lightninglaboratories.com\/tcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lightninglaboratories.com\/tcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lightninglaboratories.com\/tcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lightninglaboratories.com\/tcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
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