Two videos devoted to new applications for Android OS - Augmented Traffic Views and Wikitude Drive – appeared online recently. Both use the so-called «Augmented reality» – when the actual imagery from the smartphone camera are supplemented by various information layers. These two applications combine the driving process with «augmented reality» and are used to facilitate the process of driving and navigation.
This is a new word in navigation.

Augmented Traffic Views uses the data from traffic surveillance cameras in Toronto, to inform drivers of the latest «reports from the road». Appendix imposes a layer of surveillance cameras in the current view of the camera phone (using your current GPS position and direction of motion). Clicking on the icon of any camera allows to see what is currently happening at the appropriate intersection, and thus decide whether to drive there or better seek a detour.

Meanwhile Mobilizy, creator of the existing program for augmented reality Wikitude announced the release of a new app called Wikitude Drive, the app for «augmented navigation» in which the navigational guidance directions of movement are superimposed on a picture of the road obtained from the camera. This  is a fully-featured navigation program that does not contain maps and works with existing navigation programs, such as NavTeq and TeleAtlas via API. In Wikitude Drive voice prompts, using the engine TTS (text to speach) are also implemented. Constant connection to the Internet is required to use the app.