Parrot, leaders in wireless peripherals for mobile phones, revolutionised the video gaming world by creating the AR.Drone, the first flying object in Augmented Reality piloted through Wi-Fi.

Today Parrot goes even further with a number of announcements to enhance the piloting experience for players and fans alike. Parrot AR.Drone is now compatible with OS AndroidTM Smartphones, bada (Samsung) and Symbian (Nokia).

More games: Challenge your piloting skills on your own customised circuits, zigzag your way through trees, inflatable pylons and donuts and race against the clock with AR.Race, a customizable single or multi-player racing game for the AR.Drone.

There will be more surprises to add to the growing catalogue of games for the AR.Drone soon.

More interactions: Who will be the No. 1 AR.Drone pilot 2011? Parrot has set up the AR.Drone Challenges, an international competition* taking place from June 24, through August 14, 2011 and consist of three challenges for a chance to compete in the October 2011 grand final in Paris.

AndroidTM Smartphones users will find a free version of AR.FreeFlight's piloting application developed by Parrot in July 2011 on the Android Market.

At the same time, Playsoft Games - for Samsung - and Nokia used the Parrot AR.Drone Software Development Kit (available for free at https://projects.ardrone.org) to develop "Free Flight" (bada) and "AR.Drone" (Symbian) piloting apps.

The SDK allows new developers to create new applications for the AR.Drone across iOS, AndroidTM, bada or Symbian platforms.

More games with the launch of customised circuits with AR.Race. AR.Race is a racing game that allows one-to-four pilots to challenge themselves on the same circuit constituted by their natural environment, such as trees, or inflatable items (pylons and donut) to zigzag between trees, by-pass pylons or to get through the donut.

Parrot will launch a brand new game involving two players and a single AR.Drone. The new game is a confrontation between the man and the machine, a track race where the target is not necessarily the one suspected.