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Thursday, August 26, 2010

#3D Social Media Augments Reality with Crowd-Sourced Geo-tags

Augmented reality (AR) overlays information about the real world right on top of the real objects, but of course you can only see them by looking at the world through your smartphone's camera. Look for everything in the world to be covered with digital post-its that can only be seen after entering AR within two years. RColinJohnson @NextGenLog


Tokyo's skyline is already brimming over with information icons left by Sekai Camera users

Here is what Smarter Technology says about AR: The emerging spate of augmented reality apps—of which Sekai Camera is the first—uniquely meld social media, geo-tagging and crowd-sourced entertainment to allow iPhone, iPad and Android smartphone users to look through their handset's camera and see the world around them augmented with informational icons added by other users...
Full Text: http://bit.ly/NextGenLog-aHcu