TERNI, ITALY, December 23, 2010 (Press-News.org) Smart-App is the Green Consulting Srl. business unit, dealing with research & development in the smartphone's application sector; it has now released "Xmas Ball", Android application which you can forward in a geographical pinpoint Xmas greetings through the Augmented Realitysystem.
Thanks to an easy but graphically intriguing interface, just in perfect Christmas style, the Xmas Ball allows to send SMT & Greetings to friends and relatives. It can also let a geo-pinpointed message virtually floating in disguise of a Xmas Ball just over the house or any other physical address of the receiver; once he's got the message notice, he shall be able to read it through the Augmented Reality function by just pointing his Android smartphone camera toward the location where the message has been sent, and read his own personal greetings straight from the display.
Xmas Ball is also a social network. By pointing the smartphone display up to the sky, a radar will visualize a number of floating Xmas Balls that have been launched by the Xmas Ball community on the spot. Each ball will feature the message sender as well as the receiver, but reading shall be opened to everyone just to let anybody sharing his own Christmas greetings with the whole community. In order to ease the exchange and to socialize, application users might find their meeting point on the web site http://www.xmasmessage.com where you can read all them and send more.
Xmas Ball has been developed in order to make application's use as easy as possible. SmartApp, as a result of a user's interface study (UI), searching for the best information navigation and visualization system, has become a plain and intuitive interface. So, Xmas Ball is a tempting and functional application. The Augmented Reality function has been developed, among the first in the world, by the use of the OpenGL 3D that really places over the real world components the virtual ones. In such a way, experience has enriched through position control in the 3D space. Due to this system, Xmas Ball not only take up different dimensions according to distance, floating and rolling in the air as a real object, but they turn out according to the perspective view.
"With Xmas Ball we've meant to offer a fun and intriguing Christmas application, trying out a new technology through the Augmented Reality system at the same time, so we can give users a unique experience.", says Luca Altobelli, SmartApp business unit manager.
Xmas Ball is available for free for all Android smartphones, and it's possible to download it from AppBrain or http://www.xmasmessage.com web sites.
All About Green Consulting
Established 1998, Green Consulting is a web agency skilled to give companies taylor-made consultancies & computing solutions, especially for those in Tourism & E-commerce sectors.
Up to date, more than 1500 companies have chosen Green Consulting services. In latest years, the Company has developed a specific know-how in the Tourism Web-Marketing field, carrying out, placing and managing web-sites and portals for Tour Operators, Travel Agents, Consortium, and many more, such as "FederAlberghi Umbria" and "Umbria Agriturist".
Since 1999 Green Consulting manages and develops the website "Bellaumbria.net", while from 2004 the whole "ViaggiareWeb" tourism web-site's network as well reaching a leading position and making its way among Italian on-line market leaders.
In 2010 SmartApp starts-up, the business unit dealing with research & development in the smartphone's application sector aiming to give mobile market innovative solutions.
For more info, visit http://www.greenconsulting.com web-site.
"Xmas Ball", the latest release for a Merry Xmas Application launched by Green Consulting.
With Green Consulting "Xmas Ball" Android application you can forward Christmas greetings system to an exact geographical pinpoint through the Augmented Reality.
2010-12-23
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[Press-News.org] "Xmas Ball", the latest release for a Merry Xmas Application launched by Green Consulting.With Green Consulting "Xmas Ball" Android application you can forward Christmas greetings system to an exact geographical pinpoint through the Augmented Reality.