About year ago we made the decision to funnel our City Icons series into one app. The decision was not easy, because it meant changing our AR engine, which is based on Layar. The app became Terra Icons v 1.0, still depends on Layar, but that was going to be the last and only version that uses it.

Changes

In order to concentrate our our cities into one app we needed to rebuilt our back-end from scratch, as today it’s a stitch of several independent cities. This new back-end needed to handle several cities, but also several services, as many of them don’t offer the same AR content. At the time, Layar communicated to us they had no certain plans if they were going to continue upgrading their SDK anymore. Thus we settle for Wikitude, which allowed us a clear path to upgrade, supported several platforms (which we needed) and worked with HTML.

Since then …

We have:

• Get some financing
• Build our new internal API
• Promote our work in London and San Diego
• Finally started to develop the app, which is still in the beta phase, but closer to being out

We would have like all this to happen faster, however the important thing is what we’ve accomplished. For sure, we’ll broadcast to you all when the new version is our. We’ll keep you posted.