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Augmented Reality view for Bandsintown

September 18, 2009 at 11:57 · Posted in android, mobile

: Image via CrunchBase

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

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Tags: AR, AugmentedReality, bandsintown, concerts, Google Maps, Last.fm, layar, Mobile phone, music, Pandora
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Cyrket market, a useful application of QR codes

August 25, 2009 at 15:05 · Posted in android, mobile

QR Code: link to Layar at Android Market

Update (20091119) Cyrket appears to be down, use Androlib instead.

QR codes are used in a very useful way on the Web version of the Android Market: Cyrket. Here applications are listed together with their Market link, which, in order to be useful, needs to be entered in your Android device (e.g. your G1, Hero or Galaxy phone).
Typing is annoying and error prone, so the site developers chose to encode the link in a QR image instead.

Visiting the entry in market is as simple as opening one of the excellent barcode scanner apps, point your camera on the QR code, snap an image and off you go!

There’s just one shortcoming, at least for the G1: the image is not very large and focusing can be a problem at times. However, his is easy to overcome with a small Greasemonkey script I wrote: Android Market Cyrket QR image enlarger.