Augmented reality app Layer graduates from App Stores... creates its own

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Layar makes augmented reality applications for smartphone platforms including Google Android and the iPhone. What that means is, you can hold up your phone and look through the camera while seeing digital information about the things you're looking at. Click on the Architecture layer, and you can see information about significant buildings you pass. The Allmenus layer, shows you information about restaurants you pass, complete with menus and ratings when available.

Up until now the app was only available from the iPhone App Store and Android Market, and all of the different augmented reality layers in the application were available for free. But both of those things could soon change.

Today Layar announced that it's partnered with "one of the top 3" handset makers, which could mean that the software will come preinstalled on some phones in the not-too-distant future. The company is also sort of opening an app store of its own. Third parties can already create tools for Layar (like the Allmenus layer). There are 375 already available, and hundreds of additional layers in development. So far, they're all free. But come March, you'll start to see a mix of free and paid content available for the Layar application.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

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