Wimbledon is (Virtually) Here

If you’re lucky enough to have tickets for the Wimbledon tennis fortnight this summer then IBM have plans to augment your experience.

Seer Android is an augmented reality (ar) app for the T-Mobile G1 that’s being trialled at this year’s Wimbledon championships. IBM says:

From tennis to food courts, points of interest throughout the Wimbledon grounds have been plotted using GPS. By making use of the T-Mobile G1’s digital compass and precise GPS coordinates, the application offers a ‘heads up display’ to show the user what they are looking at. It augments this with other live data from the scoring systems and IBM scouts reporting from around the grounds, to give the user a comprehensive and dynamic insight into their surroundings. For instance, pointing the camera lens towards a court will not only identify the court number, but also display details about the current and subsequent matches.

Seer Android Beta users can also use the phones’ Map view, which pinpoints their location on a detailed map of the grounds, and can be used as a way finder. The Timeline view is an aggregation of news feeds and updates from IBM scouts, and allows users to see in real-time what is happening around the site. And a handy ‘Radar’ function indicates the user’s current position and nearby points of interest within range.

So you’ll always know the nearest place to buy more strawberries!