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Discover Anywhere Mobile in The Telegram

David Janes — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:25:03 +0000

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.

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

David Janes — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:19:59 +0000

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.

Discover Anywhere Mobile on CBC Spark

David Janes — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:31:14 +0000

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!

Discover Anywhere Transit now available!

David Janes — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:40:03 +0000

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.

Discover Anywhere Transit sent to App Store

David Janes — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:39:41 +0000

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.

Discover Anywhere Transit

David Janes — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:46:08 +0000

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.

Current Transit Locations

Amtrak

Atlanta MARTA

Baltimore Metro

Boston MBTA

Buffalo Metro Rail

Calgary C-Train

California ACE

California BART

California Caltrain

California Metrolink

Charlotte LYNX

Chicago CTA

Cleveland RTA

Dallas DART

Denver RTD

Edmonton ETS

Florida TriRail

Houston METRORail

LA Metro

Long Island LIRR

Metra

Metro-North

Miami Metrorail

Minnestoa Hiawatha Line

Montreal Metro

New Jersey River Line

New Jersey Transit

New Mexico Rail Runner

Newark Light Rail

NYC Subway

Ontario GO

Oregon MAX

PATCO

PATH

Pennsylvania SEPTA

Phoenix Valley Metro

Pittsburgh Light Rail

San Diego Coaster

San Diego MTS

San Francisco MUNI

South Shore Line

St. Louis MetroLink

Tennessee Music City Star

Toronto TTC

Utah FrontRunner

Utah TRAX

Vancouver TransLink

Virginia Railway Express

Washington Sounder