Using Tweeps Around a lot in Layar? Want to have a nice clean app icon or shortcut to place on your Android’s home screen?
Now you can: today the TweepsAround launch app has been released in the Android market.
TweepsAround Launcher is a real Android application, so you can place it anywhere on you Android phone. When activated, it opens Layar with the TweepsAround layer in Reality View, no more browsing in the catalog.
The app also checks if you have Layar installed. When not, you get a button which takes you directly to Layar in the Android Market where you can download it for free.
Want to give it a spin? The QR code below links to the app in the Android store, ready to install. Or you could search for “tweepsaround”.
Of course all feedback, hints and tips are welcome!
The Layar application Tweepsaround makes visible who says what on twitter in your direct neighborhood. But is it true, or are they a bunch of bad layars?
The guys from Teletekst is Dood wanted to find out so they started their private investigation.
Watch this hilarious video to find out about the naked truth!
(via @wilbertbaan)
Teletekst is dood uses augmented reality to find the people behind the tweets
On Twitter, many things are shared by people, often in the belief that this information does not result in feedback in the physical world. We at Teletekst is dood wanted to show that we do listen to you. Using Layar, a mobile augmented reality application, we looked for the people behind the tweets, translating the digital the conversation to the physical world. In addition to our visits, we left the people art objects from our personal collection.
- David Veneman – camera swinger 1 / director
- Tim Terpstra – camera swinger 2
- Jorick Mulder – getaway-driver
- Mik Maes â megaphone maestro
- Micah Westera â delivery of TVâs
- Beer van Geer â people tracker
NIce! Tweepsaround is used as a unique feature in a TV ad for LG which aired last week on Dutch TV networks. The screens are showed approximately halfway the commercial.
I’m proud to announce a new version of the Tweeps Around layer, with the following improvements:
The images of tweeting people are shown in 3D in space, just as they are around you
Support for the new native geotagging feature of Twitter
You can now reply and post new tweets (status updates)
Your tweets will be geotagged with your current location (optional)
Like to experience this yourself? Make sure you have the latest version of Layar installed in your iPhone (free download in App Store) or Android powered device (free download from Android Market).
You need a Twitter account with geolocation eneabled to send local tweets yourself (no worries, Tweeps Around will guide you through the process when you first log into Twitter).
This allows every twitter user who uses a (mobile) device that is capable of determining their location, to annotate their tweets with exact location. This makes Tweeps Around so much more useful! Up to now, the location had to be parsed from the user’s profile location field, which some clients indeed dutifully update with the location of the last posted tweet. But this is often rather inaccurate, as the last update is kept when no location data is available.
Twitter: mobile geo activation screen
So, we will get real exact locations and – as can be expected – many more location annotated tweets. That is, if users are willing to activate the geotagging setting and use the feature. It is switched off by default, for privacy reasons, so you have to manually activate it under your twitter account settings (the mobile settings lead to just one activate button).
Be sure to check out Tweeps Around the coming days and let’s see how fast this catches on!
BTW: in Tweeps Areond, the officially geotagged tweets are indicated with Distance 234m, whereas the guessed locations are prefixed with a tilde character, like this: Distance ~234m.
Direct link to Tweeps Around Layer (open from your mobile phone, iPhone or Android).
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