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Discover Anywhere Mobile in The Telegram

In the April 22 edition of The Telegram, Discover Anywhere Mobile’s Destination St. John’s app gets a nice mention:

St. John’s app

m.destinationstjohns.com

Through Destination St. John’s, here’s a way to get more out of the city on your iPhone or BlackBerry. You’ll find restaurant listings, points of interest, where to go for a hike, where to grab a beer … it goes on. If you know someone coming for a visit, this would be a great tip to send along. If your phone is GPS-enabled, the mapping functions will become a whole lot more useful.

May 16th, 2010 in Augmented Reality, Media, Mentions

TripWolf is not the first company to offer integrated travel guides with Augmented Reality.

We were surprised yesterday to learn that TripWolf is claiming to be the “first iPhone travel guide with integrated Augmented Reality“. Surprised, because TripWolf’s claims are simply not supported by the facts. For example, Discover Anywhere Mobile has been shipping Augmented Reality in all its products since September of 2009. Here’s a select sample of our apps, all which include POI databases, events calendars, itinerary planning, search, integrating mapping and much much more.

Finger Lakes Wine Country (released March 9, 2010)
Ocean City, MD (released February 17, 2010)
Central Nova Scotia (AR release Feb 16, 1010)
Destination St. John’s (released Nov 17, 2009)

All these apps are actually available in the app store right now; many more are in the pipeline. In addition, many other app makers in the Travel sector offer Augmented Reality (and the dates given here are for their latest releases, earlier versions no doubt had these features too) :

Wikitude (Feb 11, 2010)
Canada Eye (March 3, 2010)
Metro Paris Subway (Feb 1, 2010)
Bionic Eye (Feb 5, 2010)

One application that may reasonable lay claim to being first into the AR travel market is Yelp, who cleverly snuck an Easter egg into their application before Apple officially allowed AR to be supported in August of 2009. There are also a number of Asian travel apps which offer integrated Augmented Reality.

We’re happy for TripWolf that they’ll soon be offering a feature that was available from the rest of the market 6 months ago (FYI: it takes Apple less than three days to approve an app these days). We look forward to their announcement, perhaps someday, of them being the first to offer comprehensive social media integration into their products.

March 12th, 2010 in Augmented Reality, Discover Anywhere Mobile, Industry, Press Release

Discover Anywhere Mobile on CBC Spark

Last week we did a brief “background” interview with Nora Young of CBC Spark about Discover Anywhere Mobile’s Transit app and Augmented Reality. You can listen here:

Full CBC Podcast (with notes, etc)
Our segment (as an MP3, about 2:15 long)

Thank you very much to Nora and the gang at Spark!

September 28th, 2009 in Applications, Augmented Reality, Media, Mentions, Of Interest

Discover Anywhere Transit now available!

Discover Anywhere “DA Transit” – our Augmented Reality transit finder application – is now available from the iTunes app store.

Read more about it here in the original blog post! As far as we can tell by searching the iTunes store, we’re the first iPhone OS 3.1 valid Augmented Reality application.

September 18th, 2009 in Applications, Augmented Reality

Discover Anywhere Transit sent to App Store

Discover Anywhere Transit – called “DA Transit” on the iPhone for brevity reason – has been submitted to the app store now that the iPhone OS 3.1 has been officially released. We’ll let you know when it’s actually out (i.e. when it gets past Apple’s mystical app store process)! Now with nearly 50 transit locations and shiny new Augmented Reality features.

September 11th, 2009 in Applications, Augmented Reality, iPhone

Discover Anywhere Transit

Discover Anywhere “DA Transit” is now available from the iTunes app store (note: link will launch iTunes to show the application in the app store):

Transit information can be selected:

by transit system
by what’s near me right now
by search
by user favorites

When viewing transit stops, they can be shown:

in “Augmented Reality” mode, showing the location information floating on the video screen above stops
on a map
as a listing, sorted alphabetically or by distance from me

Screen Shots

Updates:

2009-09-08: the following lines have been added: Amtrak, California ACE, California Caltrain, California Metrolink, Florida TriRail, Long Island LIRR, Metra, Metro-North, New Mexico Rail Runner, San Diego Coaster, South Shore Line, Tennessee Music City Star, Utah FrontRunner, Utah TRAX, Virginia Railway Express and Washington Sounder. We now are covering 49 rail lines!

2009-09-10: submitted to app store.

About Discover Anywhere Mobile

Discover Anywhere Mobile creates mobile applications for the tourism industry, particularly DMOs and CVBs. Our applications run on iPhones, iPod Touches, BlackBerries and mobile web browsers. All features in Discover Anywhere Mobile Transit will be available to our customers, including augmented reality.