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;
- General curiosity
- Actually tracking down where the site is once your Sat Nav announces you’ve arrived despite just being at the entrance of a forest
- 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.
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.
Although this is technically a Version 4 release item it hasn’t required a major change to the V3 code base so I’m pleased to announce the release of the