Augmented Reality steps it up a notch
Wow... the folks at Total Immersion put on a pretty incredible show at Demo 2007, showing the capacities of their augmented reality software.
AR has been a dreamed-at concept for over 10 years, but technology is only now beginning to catch up with the hopes. Technology Review has a great write-up on some of the emerging technology around AR + mobile devices in their March/April Issue with a focus on this project from Nokia. The two-second version: in a few years you'll be able to point your GPS-enabled camera phone at something and the image on the screen will overlay what your camera sees with what the internet knows about what you're looking at... e.g. a box around the empire state building that says "empire state building", or a box around your friend Bob that says "Bob Jones"... Sound like science fiction? We're getting closer every day...
