Along with a 30-40% faster web-browser on the upcoming BlackBerry Bold Touch 99xx, an Augmented Reality Browser from Wikitude will also be implemented. The Augmented Reality Browser scans your surroundings for ‘Geo-referenced content” using the device’s camera and sensors to display related information about the object on the screen, directly to where the real object is located.
As well as providing more than 150 million geo-referenced places aggregated from over 1,000 different content providers like Wikipedia, Twitter and YouTube, Wikitude will also fully integrate the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) allowing users to interact with their BBM contacts and meet new people in augmented reality. “Combining Wikitude with the overwhelmingly large user base of BBM around the world creates a completely new form of social interaction. This is the very first time that instant messaging is rolled out in AR on such a large scale” says Andy Gstoll, Chief Marketing Officer at Wikitude.
