m-Tourism & Culture
Wi-Bike is an innovative interactive multimedia guide for bike touring. Developed by creatively integrating state-of-the-art mobile GPS technology and multimedia content, Wi-Bike provides travellers with a powerful and practical tool to fully understand and enjoy the space around them.
It combines satellite navigation with a rich multimedia guide, all in the same device at one's fingertips. It not only enables tourists to plan their route and be guided through the most interesting sites, but it also enriches their experience with specific multimedia information.
Thanks to the device's built-in GPS, once approaching a point of interest Wi-Bike automatically starts a multimedia presentation, including audio and video content, bringing highlights to provide more in-depth information about each location. Wi-Bike can work both on-line and off-line and can be tailored to be used not only for bike touring, but also for walking, trekking and other purposes.
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LMT Līgo Līgo
The Līgo Līgo app is an iPhone application dedicated to the traditional Ligo (solstice) festival celebrates by Latvians as mid-summer night approaches. Ligo is the most cherished tradition of the year and for generations the central ritual of this festivity has been the singing of traditional Ligo songs.
The Ligo Ligo app includes more than 400 traditional Latvian Ligo folk songs, both the melody and several traditional instrumental samples. The app also lets one use iPhone/iPod touch as a music instrument and play along with the songs. It makes the traditional Ligo singing ritual more entertaining for younger generations which tend to avoid this tradition.
The Ligo Ligo app is the first branded mobile entertainment app in Latvia and - contrary to expectations - it received considerable attention from the local community, becoming the most downloaded free app of the Latvian App Store in the first days after the launch.
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With SmartMuseum, visitors of museums and special sites can register via their mobile devices and receive a full-featured audio-visual guided tour of the site on-the-go.
The overall objective of the project is to develop a platform for innovative services, enhancing on-site personalised access to digital cultural heritage through adaptive and privacy preserving user profiling.
Using on-site knowledge databases, global digital libraries and visitors’ experiential knowledge, SmartMuseum makes possible the creation of innovative multilingual services for increasing interaction between visitors and cultural heritage objects in a future-oriented smart museum environment which takes full advantage of digitized cultural information.
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Hungary Tourismallows users to browse among hotels, restaurants, museums, sights and spas using a mobile Smartphone. The comprehensive database of 25.000 locations across Hungary provides a large choice of accommodations and leisure activities.
Citizens and tourists can learn about the latest specials or use the map-based service guide to take you around in the capital and also off the beaten track. One can also easily access weather info, currency exchange rates and even some useful expressions with a talking dictionary in one of the most unique languages on Earth.
On top of all this, users have the possibility of sharing the database with your friends and of linking up with your social network through the Hungary Tourism app.
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Wikitude World Browser is an augmented reality browser for Smartphone users. It was published at the end of 2008 almost simultaneously with the first android device, the G1 and provides a live direct or indirect view of the physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery. The Wikitude World Browser makes visible currently approx. 110 million points of information (POIs) all around the world with more to be added by the day. They are displayed on the Smartphone’s screen, right where the real object is situated.
Wikitude Drive uses the browser to offer a new style of navigation system by overlaying the route one selected onto the live video stream of the present surroundings. Driver can thus easily recognize and follow the suggested route looking at the real world, not jut a map. The navigation system leads the drivers through real territory.
Wikitude solves a key problem of those navigation systems which require drivers to take their eyes off the road in order to look at a map. By looking at a map screen for just one second when driving at 100 km/h (62 mph), the driver would be actually “blind” for 28 meters (92 ft). Using Wikitude World Browser drivers keep their eyes on the road seeing the live stream of the street overlaid with information on the right directions.
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