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Video: Enkin, GPS based augmented reality for Google's Android

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The concept is simple, point your phone at the horizon and look at your screen to get more information about your surroundings. Rafael Spring and Max Braun wrote a program Enkin for Google's Android that does just that as their submission to the Android Developer Challenge. With the recent announcement that KML is now an official standard for marking up maps I can totally see a future where you can grab different data depending on your situation to overlay on your world or even share the data you created with your private friends or even the world! Enough hypothesizing, check out what these two guys did below and don't forget to download the PDF saying how they did it. Enkin from Enkin on Vimeo . [Via: Wireless Watch Japan ] --- Related Articles at IntoMobile:

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