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Augmented reality apps coming to iPhone in OS 3.1
By Charles Starrett
Senior Editor, iLounge
Published: Monday, July 27, 2009
News Category: Apps + Games
Apple plans to allow iPhone developers to release augmented reality apps in the App Store following the roll out of iPhone OS 3.1. The LA Times reports that Apple told Acrossair, developer of the Nearest Tube train finder, that the app will be approved for distribution after Apple releases the latest version of the iPhone and iPod touch software, which the company believes to be on track to land in early September. Currently, developers of augmented reality apps—which utilize the iPhone’s Internet connection, GPS, Compass, and camera to overlay information atop a stream of video showing the user’s surroundings—are using the iPhone OS’ camera viewer in an unauthorized manner to deliver the video needed for the apps to run, but that 3.1 will change that. “We have the app working on 3.0 already,” Acrossair Director Chetan Damani told the LA Times. “On 3.1, we have a few extra bits that allow us to show full-screen video.”
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No 3.1 until September? With that long of a wait I sure hope the majority of the bugs are shaken out before release.
Posted by rockmyplimsoul on July 27, 2009 at 11:26 AM (PDT)
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September?
The IPod 3g was rumoured to be realesed then…
Ooooo mysterious…
Posted by Nooke on July 30, 2009 at 1:07 PM (PDT)