Its one of the coolest technologies (which matured in 2009.), which interfaces the real world and the streams of data online - and making sense of all of that.
For me, this came through the iPhone 3GS - being accompanied with a compass. ( I read about and watched the Sixth Sense Technology demo's later.)
So, with GPS and the Compass box - the device knew where on earth you are and in which direction you are looking - providing a very powerful dataset.
Because of this - if you hold the phone is a particular direction - it knows what you are looking at! - thus helping to make sense of all of this data in the real world.
Pointing the phone towards a 'restaurant' - shows me the ratings, user comments and all that information available online!
This is certainly a very powerful way of deciphering physical world data. For me, this was like the culmination of the online and the physical worlds.
The kinds of applications being released - based on AR - are indeed very powerful. Yelp, Layar (as a platform) are just the beginning IMO.
I see this whole Augmented Reality tech in a way again referring to the 'recommendation' and NOT SEARCH model.
And this cannot get more AWESOME that the below video. Google Launched Goggles today. AR is definitely here to stay! About apps. that I would like to see within next year - i would post about them in the next one! Till then, enjoy Goggles B-)
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