Augmented reality navigation app Wikitude Drive comes to US

Austrian software developers Wikitude were pioneers of Augmented Reality on the Android platform. The company's Wikitude World Browser was the first AR app for Android in 2008, and it has been downloaded onto a million devices.

Tuesday, Wikitude launched its augmented reality satellite navigation app Wikitude Drive for U.S. Android devices. The app has been available for approximately 8 months already in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, Spain, France, and Italy.

Wikitude Drive is a unique GPS navigation app because users attach their phone to their windshield, and the app uses the phone's camera to capture a live image of the road ahead and overlays 3D driving directions on top of it. Wikitude Drive's mapping, point of interest, and routing data comes from Nokia's mapping subsidiary Navteq, so the app guarantees an experience similar to other navigation apps.

Wikitude Drive is available for $14.13 in the Android Market now.