Within a few years it will be common to use a mobile phone to interact with magazines in order to gain access to exclusive content. To give us a glimpse on what the future holds, Metaio has been working hard with SZ Magazine to give their readers an augmented reality experience they’ll never forget.

If you’re looking for your first demo of feature tracking for the iPhone (I’m pretty sure the feature is also there for junaio Android users) then make sure you have junaio installed, go to the featured channel and click the GLUE demo option.

Natural feature tracking is going to be big and take the mobile world by storm. At Augmented Planet we think what while iOS3 represented the year of the augmented reality browser, iOS4 will become the year of the natural feature tracking application.

These are just some of the scenarios that natural feature tracking makes possible, and hopefully we can expect in the future:

Today Metaio (the developers of Junaio) announced that their partners ROFO and HotPads are one of the first in the real estate industry to use augmented reality to visually show users all nearby properties in a several mile radius on their phone to take the hassle out of property search

The new Junaio browser has the ability to recognise markers, so at SXSW delegates had the opportunity to take part in a scavenger hunt at the show. This involved installing Junaio and then hunting down people in the special tee-shirts that have markers or finding carefully hidden markers around the event.

To a surprising lack of any kind of Metaio inspired fanfare, Junaio 2.0 arrived in the iPhone store (Android version coming soon). The new version of Junaio is a huge upgrade over the previous version, Junaio is now a full augmented reality browser, as well as creating 3D content you are now able to find your nearest restaurant, nearby tweets etc. Junaio 2.0 also has augmented reality marker recognition functionality. It’s all great stuff but the silence is deafening, we just cant help but wonder if 2.0 slipped out as an accident.

There was around 75 people who make the event andfFeedback from everyone I spoke to has been extremely positive, it’s something that you’d like us to do again. A few people offered to donate a venue for next time which will be fantastic, we’ll try to get a beer sponsor as well. We will look at planning another event for April so we hope to see you again.

Junaio the new augmented reality social browser hit’s the iPhone, we take a first look

Layar announce they are coming to Symbian early next year and we eagerly await Metaio’s new Junaio browser for the iPhone.

Metaio annouced on Friday they are launching an augmented reality application called Junaio for the iPhone.

Scheduled for release on the 3rd November, Junaio will enable users to access and share information on their surroundings.