Gaming and Augmented Reality Come to Location-Based Services

Recently released mobile phone services include Foursquare and Gowalla, location-based social networking services with a gaming element, and Metro Paris Subway, Yelp, and Urbanspoon, which add augmented-reality features to local-search applications.

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Published inIEEE pervasive computing Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 5 - 6
Main Authors Ebling, Maria R., Cáceres, Ramón
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.01.2010
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Augmented reality
Computation
Foursquare
gaming
Gowalla
location-based services
manual localization
Metro Paris Subway
Metros
Mobile handsets
mobile/wireless
Paris
Social network services
social networking
Subways
Telephones
Urbanspoon
Yelp
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Summary:Recently released mobile phone services include Foursquare and Gowalla, location-based social networking services with a gaming element, and Metro Paris Subway, Yelp, and Urbanspoon, which add augmented-reality features to local-search applications.
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ISSN:1536-1268
1558-2590
DOI:10.1109/MPRV.2010.5