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Augmented Reality view for Bandsintown

Bandsintown is a really nice service which lists upcoming music events all around the world. They focus on providing the best matches to your musical taste and near your location. If you sign up and give them your last.fm or pandora account name, the magic starts working.

But wait, how would this information work out for you if you could view upcoming concerts on your mobile phone, overlaid on the camera video as Reality View?

Here a storyboard of a soon to release layer for your Layar app, called, not surprisingly, bandsintown.

Select the Bandsintown layer and let the fun begin

Continued after the jump…

Search options

Select filter preferences (how long in the future, at what distance)

Search results

Here, the search results are displayed in “Reality View”, also known as Augmented Reality.

Found some concerts near me, yeah!

Actions for the result

Now I can choose what to do: buy tickets or find out more information first...

Action: buy tickets (right from my mobile phone)

Action: more about the venue

Action: get info about the artist first

Action: get me there (starts Google Maps)

Alternate result views

Alternate view for results: list view

Alternate view for results: map view

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