Archive for February, 2010

Airbana’s First Layar Released

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

The first of Airbana’s Layars has been released this week.

Layar is an Augmented Reality application for the iPhone and Android that allows you to superimpose information onto your phones camera view based on your GPS position and internal compass.

The first Layar simply displays Airsoft Retailers and Skirmish sites near you (You can adjust the distance from 10m to 200Km). This is great for a number of reasons;

  1. General curiosity
  2. Actually tracking down where the site is once your Sat Nav announces you’ve arrived despite just being at the entrance of a forest
  3. A preview of Airbana’s interactive Layar that is coming soon

Search the App Store and the App Market for the Layar application and then once installed search for Airsoft.
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Airbana’s next Layar is designed for use in Capture the Flag style missions in large outdoor environments (GPS doesn’t really work inside) where you will be able to see where (and how far away) your objectives are, read the brief and receive up to the minute data about the status of the objectives and if your team members also have an Android or iPhone where they are too!

As with all of Airbana’s other projects this is free to use for everyone.

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Airbana on Airsoftology

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

I’ve just finished listening to the recent episode of Airsoftology and was delighted to hear their review of the Airbana Airsoft Map.

Check out the latest podcast (and others) here: http://www.airsoftology.com/2010/02/airsoftology28/

Airsoftology Talk – Episode #28: “Muffin Top” from Airsoftology on Vimeo.

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Android App Updated

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Airbana will soon be bringing a comprehensive application to both the iPhone App Store and the Android App Markets featuring the latest Airsoft news, Airbana’s maps, the ability to edit and Add sites as well as other features that make use of the GPS functionality (if you want it too).

Some of the code from this new application has made it ‘back’ into the “Airsoft Events Info” application on the Android App Market.

Due to various compatibility issues the original Android application has been unpublished in favour of this newer version.

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The blurb on the Android market is;
The latest version of Airbana’s Airsoft Events info app.
Find Skirmish events happening in the next week, fortnight or even months in advance.
Add new Events or Edit an Event if something is incorrect.
Search for specific Events and filter out sites you aren’t interested in.

There is the possibility that an iPhone version of this application may also backport down from the full application.

Here’s a lock screen image as well;
Android Lock Screen - The Android Robot is based on work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.

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