Title :
Gaming and Augmented Reality Come to Location-Based Services
Author :
Ebling, Maria R. ; Cáceres, Ramón
Author_Institution :
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
Augmented reality; Mobile handsets; Social network services; Foursquare; Gowalla; Metro Paris Subway; Urbanspoon; Yelp; augmented reality; gaming; location-based services; manual localization; mobile/wireless; social networking;
Journal_Title :
Pervasive Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPRV.2010.5
