Archive for January, 2010
By Maurice on January 29th 2010
We are very proud to announce that we are pre-installed on the Samsung Galaxy Portal in the UK.
Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, co-founder, Layar: “Layar is honoured to have Samsung, the worldwide #2 mobile manufacturer install the Layar browser on the home screen of this leading device. The UK is now primed to become one of the most active markets in the exciting new world of Mobile Augmented Reality. Samsung’s distribution of the Layar platform will provide developers with a compelling channel to reach an even larger audience of AR users”
For this pre-installation Samsung has created their own Layars which will be embedded into the Galaxy Portal at launch – The Samsung Hotel Search, powered by hotels.com, Samsung Local Search, powered by Qype, Samsung Train Station Search powered by thetrainline.com and the Samsung Football Pub Finder.
- Lastminute.com (*Exclusive) – restaurant finder, guide and booking services
- Nestoria Property Search (*Exclusive) – nationwide coverage with over 800,000 properties available to be viewed at any one time
- Trainline.com (Launch partner) – find directions to your nearest train station across the country
- Barclaycard (Launch partner) – find local Barclaycard cash points and shops participating in the contactless pay scheme
- Samsung Local Search, powered by Qype.com – millions of reviews across the country available, from the best shops to restaurants, cafes, theatres, museums, gigs and much more
- Samsung Hotel Search, powered by Hotels.com – guide and to nearby hotels in the area
- Samsung Football Pub Finder – a massive database of pub around the country, and those that have TV capable of showing the live match! This is a Samsung Layer made available to any handset.
Nick Turner-Samuels, Head of Content, Samsung Mobile UK: “This is a great opportunity to work in one of the most innovative and exciting areas of mobile technology and with some fantastic lifestyle brands.
“This marks our first entry into the exciting world of Augmented Reality. We expect to see a lot of growth in this area in the near future.”
The Samsung Galaxy Portal will be available in the UK stores as of next Monday.
By Maurice on January 22nd 2010
We take great pride in our product and are very serious about delivering high quality to our users and our developer community.
This is why we decided, ourselves and not Apple, to pull our application from the Appstore after the number of users reporting crashes exceeded our own quality standards.
We are currently re-engineering the app and we are aiming for resubmission to the Appstore by the end of February.
So please be patient and we are pretty sure we won’t disappoint you again.
By marjolein on January 21st 2010
Discover and enjoy the worldwide newest launched layers of 2010.
By Maurice on January 15th 2010
We received a lot of questions to show all our features with some good showcases, so everybody can see what can be done with Layar, in one general presentation.
This presentation will give you a general overview of Layar, all the features and a lot of showcases which will show how you can use Layar to create an experience. So let this presentation inspire you!
If you have been inspired and you want to create a layer yourself, you can request a developer key here
If you don’t have the technical skills but a great idea please contact us.
By Maurice on January 12th 2010
Last Wednesday we broadcasted our first webinar from Layar HQ in Amsterdam. Almost 150 attended this webinar and we received some very good feedback on our topics.
By Jaqueline on January 7th 2010
We are very proud to announce that earlier this week the 300th layer has been launched: Places.
The layer enables you to discover tourist locations around you. You can add your own places, send your pictures and post your comments. You can also vote for your favorite POIs.
The layer is available in Australia, Austria, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States.
The layer was made by Pablo Garcia-Morato, Jefe de proyectos, from Elipse AD in Spain. We asked him a few questions:
By Maurice on January 6th 2010
Later on today we will broadcast our first Layar webinar from our HQ in Amsterdam. To attend this webinar you have to reserve your webinar seat. Seats are now available (up to 1000). Use the invitation below to register.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/203615363
Title: Layar Webinar
Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM CET
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer
By Maurice on January 6th 2010
You’ve heard that we had to pull out the iPhone app from the App Store due to numerous reports of crashes. We’ve had much difficulty in reproducing the crashes and have decided to expand our group of beta testers. You can help us! So if you are willing to test early versions of our client software and can spend some time reporting any issues you find, please let us know. Since we have enough Iphone Beta Testers we are now looking for Android Beta Testers. So if you have an Android please join our beta test group.
By Maurice on January 4th 2010
First off all we would like to wish you all the best for 2010.
As you all know we planned our first Layar webinar for the 6th of January. We received several requests on topics some developers would like to know more of or want to discuss. We compiled the following program for this webinar and all the topics we received will be covered. There is room for questions or discussion after each topic.
