Award
Winning the Navteq Challenge 2010 Grand Prize with Wikitude Drive – The Inside Story
Sunday, Feb 14th was a great Day for Wikitude.
Andreas and I arrived in Barcelona on Thursday. So we had the whole day to settle in Barcelona. We used most of the day to work and to prepare our presentation for the judges.
Winning the Navteq Challenge 2010 Grand Prize with Wikitude Drive
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona – February 17, 2010 – NAVTEQ awards Austrian-based Mobilizy GmbH (www.mobilizy.com) the Grand Prize for the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) edition of the 2010 NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge® Wikitude Drive is the winning location based service (LBS) solution developed by Mobilizy which uses NAVTEQ® maps and offers an augmented reality camera mode and text-to-speech instructions, for turn-by-turn navigation. Mobilizy was the top winner over eleven other finalists who were each evaluated by a distinguished panel of judges comprised of executives from leading wireless and technology companies.
Wikitude: best augmented reality mobile browser
Wikitude receives the Augmented Planet Readers Choice award.
Salzburg Business Prize for Innovation – Mobilizy is the Winner!
After our nomination we have been very curious who would be the winner in the category “Innovation”. Yesterday night at the University of Applied Sciences in Puch/Urstein the big award ceremony took place.
