Augmented Reality is Here!

About Layar

The Layar Reality Browser displays real time digital information on top of reality in the camera screen of the mobile phone. While looking through the phone’s camera lens, a user can see houses for sale, popular bars and shops, tourist information of the area, play a live game, and may other functionalities

Features of layar

How amazing is it to launch an app, turn in a certain direction, and see a historic landmarks on the virtual screen, then learn more about it. Or see how close others Tweeps are to your vicinity, find a house or play a game. Layar Reality Browser Android App is one of the coolest ideas to hit the Android phone! Augment reality using the phones camera and location-based data to find local businesses, historical facts, Flickr photos, Tweeps, and more.

You can pick the plug in (layers) that suit your needs and start using it. There are lots of layers inside layar, most of them are free and some of them are paid layers, providing you much more specific and details about things you’re looking for.

Likes And Dislikes

Likes :

• Unbelievably cool concept and fun way to find information or interact
• Many 3rd party plugins (layers) to integrate such as: Local search, Wikipedia, Yelp, Tweepsaround, Brightkite, Flickr photos, etc

Dislikes:

• Sometimes it does not find obvious searches
• A bit sluggish on older device, runs perfectly on device with 1 Ghz processor

Final Verdict

4.5/5 (four points five out of five)

Layar is a very nice app, free, easy to use, offers various layers that can be very useful. There’s a small bugs in searching terms that i believe will be fixed soon ,also the low-speed processor bug on older device hopefully will get sorted out soon.

Layar Screenshot

Videos of Layar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkPHDMVxKn0