It was announced recently that Layar, the popular augmented reality browser app, has partnered with Skyhook wireless to integrate its advanced positioning technology for its Android application.

Layar is a rather impressive app to start with, it uses any database with geo-location information that can easily be turned in a content layer, and then adds that layer to a repository that users can choose from.  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, etc.

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We just covered QPC and the momentum they’ve gained with their technology known as the Articulated Naturality Web (ANW), which is similar to augmented reality but offers much more potential.

To show what’s possible with the technology, QPC has put together a video demo that’s quite remarkable to say the least.  If you’re impressed with the potential of AR, it’s safe to say that you haven’t seen anything yet.  Take a look below and be prepared to be amazed.

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We’ve covered QderoPateo a lot in the past, mostly for being a unique company that’s taken the concept of augmented reality (AR) to whole new levels.

The company, now going by the simplified moniker “QPC” for “QderoPateo Communications,” has been busy lately building on their technology known as “Articulated Naturality Web,” and has even partnered with the Chinese government to form the “World ANW Forum” as a sub-forum in Tianjin’s World Economic Forum known as the “Summer Davos Conference.”

Articulated Naturality Web, coined by Steve Chao, the CEO of QPC, basically fuses augmented reality (AR) and the Internet together.  Diving deeper into the advanced tech, ANW-based services include video scene feature identification, image processing, multi-sensor coordination, real-time positioning, wireless access, media information, digital publication, entertainment and other fields of augmented reality, just to name a few.

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The ARIA Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas has always been known to lead Sin City in technological innovation, and is furthering that reputation with the release of three new iPhone apps.

The first one, simply dubbed “ARIA,” is an interactive concierge app for guests of the hotel, giving users on-the-go access to news, menus, directions, tickets, weather, special offers and much more within a single app.  User can take advantage of all the complex has to offer directly from the app, including reserving show tickets, booking reservations at the numerous restaurants or navigating the massive grounds.

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I’ve long had a keen interest in Qdero Pateo, a unique startup working on their own brand of augmented reality known as “articulated naturality,” and who’s even released a first-of-its-kind AR-based device called the “Ouidoo Gaian Scene.”

The company today announced its first mobile app known as “Worldlenns,” which is an augmented reality app for the iPhone 3GS that incorporates “SpaceTagging,” a concept pioneered by QderoPateo to allow users to “touch and tag the real world.”

Being called the “first augmented reality fan social interaction tool,” the new app allows users to take a picture, upload it, and even leave a virtual note for other users to see- it’s a social-based augmented reality experience that integrates digital information with the real world.

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Layar, the augmented reality app for iPhone and Android, has announced a plan to monetize its technology through a newly launched content store.

Users will be able to access the content store within the app to purchase and download additional layers of information to add to their “dual-world” experience.

Already launched for Android, the content store includes additional layers from four content partners, with many more planned for the near future.  iPhone users will have access “soon,” the company says.

The idea behind Layar’s new content store is to allow content providers to distribute “extra info to help app users better navigate the real world,” with a perfect example being “Mouse Reality” who’s made a $3.45 Disneyland layer that serves as a pocket and parent-friendly park guide with 2,700 points of interest, including shows, shops, dining options, rides and other attractions.

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QderoPateo is an interesting company we’ve covered here before, specializing in their own brand of augmented reality known as “Articulated Naturality.”  The company is set to launch its very own device known as the “Ouidoo Scene,” that was specifically designed to handle the “merge of real-world environments with augmented reality’s 3D digital features.”

Being the first of its kind, the Ouidoo Scene goes well beyond traditional smartphones to include features like a multi-core CPU and multiprocessor chip system designed specifically to flawlessly handle the rigorous demands of articulated naturality applications.

Paul Saleh, General Partner of Menza Partners LLC and previously acting CEO of Sprint Nextel described it best in saying ”the Ouidoo is the first fully capable augmented reality mobile device with a complete end-to-end platform designed specifically for Articulated Naturality. The Ouidoo from QderoPateo seamlessly blends the physical and digital world in a very natural way. Ouidoo is a giant leap forward in mobile computing that set a standard not only in chipset, hardware and speed, but in its ability to redefine the mobile Internet experience.”

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