Layar
There is so much to say about this new company taking the lead in Augmented Reality. About a month ago I was provided the opportunity to meet a fabulous woman, Claire Boonstra (Co-Founder, Layar) who made time to meet with a small intimate group of developers here in San Francisco on her trip to the Pay Pal convention. There she was able to help us better understand the platform and what the company was all about…
Company
Layar is the world’s largest mobile augmented reality platform with more than 1M active users, thousands of developers and over 1,500 layers. Layar brings impactful augmented reality experiences into people’s everyday lives. The Layar platform is available on Android, iPhone and Bada devices, comes globally pre-installed on millions of phones and is promoted by leading handset manufacturers and carriers like Samsung, Verizon and Sprint.
Layar has been named as a 2011 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and TIME magazine, as a Disruptive Innovatorat the 2010 Deloitte Fast50 awards and won the Grand Prix 2010 at Netexplorateur.
Layar Founders: Claire Boonstra, Maarten Lens-FitzGerald, Raimo van der Klein
The company is located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The company started in June 2009. Layar is VC funded and has 40 employees.
Update your layar developing here as well as all the many apps you may have on the market. Also if any one has any tips or feedbacks, here the place to put it!
Currently Layar isn’t available to WebOS just yet… I’m working on it!
