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Will Augmented Reality (AR) Change Your Life? Techies Says "Yes"

Source: The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond

Nov 03, 2009

Summary

Augmented
Reality sounds like a sissy description of drug use, but it's the
latest and greatest concept in computer-enhanced living. And has a lot
of the same effects: seeing things that aren't there, an increased
awareness of your place in the universe, even being able to "really,
like, tell what somebody truly is" by looking at them - and it's this
last that The Amazing Tribe (TAT, a Swedish technology firm) are
working on.

Augmented Reality (AR) is the information age overlaid on the real
world. The idea is that if you know where a billboard is, and what it
says, and what direction it's facing, then there's no need to bother
with the actual object: you can just call up the information whenever
you're in the area. Until recently AR required specialist gear, which
meant it was never going to happen - such as system needs society-wide
use before the databases will be updated enough to be useful.

This
problem was solved by the surge in smartphones - now everyone who might
be interested in AR has (or can get) a porta

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