The buzz these days on a lot of the tech blogs is something called augmented reality:
Taken from Wikipedia:
Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are merged with-, or augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery – creating a mixed reality.
You have witnessed AR before; that yellow line that lights up the first down line while watching a football game is a form of AR.
But how is it coming to your cell phone?
Check out this cool video:
Picture this:
You are traveling and have no idea where to find the train. You hold your cell phone up and point it up the street and immediately see that 3 blocks ahead is a subway station.
Not too shabby, eh?
iPhone already has some apps out there. I know that I have seen similar apps that let you hold your phone up to the sky at night and distinguish constellations.
Now if we would start seeing some for the Palm Pre…


January 6th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
How about the blackberry storm?
I’m not sure exactly how these work, but I’d love an application that could distinguish constellations. That is really cool. I think anything that works on the Iphone can (and will eventually) be able to work on Palms, BB and Windows Based phones…
-Sylvia