Wikitude World Browser

Wikitude World Browser is an augmented reality browser for Smartphone users. It was published at the end of 2008 almost simultaneously with the first android device, the G1 and provides a live direct or indirect view of the physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery. The Wikitude World Browser makes visible currently approx. 110 million points of information (POIs) all around the world with more to be added by the day. They are displayed on the Smartphone’s screen, right where the real object is situated.

Wikitude Drive uses the browser to offer a new style of navigation system by overlaying the route one selected onto the live video stream of the present surroundings. Driver can thus easily recognize and follow the suggested route looking at the real world, not jut a map. The navigation system leads the drivers through real territory.

Wikitude solves a key problem of those navigation systems which require drivers to take their eyes off the road in order to look at a map. By looking at a map screen for just one second when driving at 100 km/h (62 mph), the driver would be actually “blind” for 28 meters (92 ft). Using Wikitude World Browser drivers keep their eyes on the road seeing the live stream of the street overlaid with information on the right directions.