Augmented reality applications like Layar or Wikitude are awesome, but they are inherently flawed since all the effort put forth at creating data for one particular application can’t be read in a different application. Mobilizy , creator of the first augmented reality application for mobile phones known as Wikitude, is proposing to the augmented reality consortium (didn’t even know such a thing existed) that ARML (augmented reality markup language) be the standard every augmented reality company should use to represent their data.

Augmented reality applications like Layar or Wikitude are awesome, but they are inherently flawed since all the effort put forth at creating data for one particular application can’t be read in a different application. Mobilizy, creator of the first augmented reality application for mobile phones known as Wikitude, is proposing to the augmented reality consortium (didn’t even know such a thing existed) that ARML (augmented reality markup language) be the standard every augmented reality company should use to represent their data. ARML is simply an extension to KML (keyhole markup language) which is already widely used for location based services. This could not have come any sooner. For augmented reality to flourish, there should be a million billion trillion augmented reality viewers and data sources, versus a tight coalition of companies dominating the space. Bravo to Mobilizy for getting the ball rolling, I’m hoping that Layar CEO Raimo van der Klein joins the bandwagon.

[Via: Read Write Web, Mobilizy]

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