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Layar Tells CNN: Augmented Reality Will Be Second Only to Voice On Phones

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Nov 06, 2009

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When you've got a global audience, maybe it's good to make sweeping, ambitious statements. Maarten Lens-Fitzgerald, co-founder of Augmented Reality browser company Layar, was interviewed by CNN today and took the opportunity to claim that AR on phones is going to be so big in the future that only voice will be more popular.

Maybe. Many people in the Augmented Reality world are rolling their eyes at Layar's incredible media exposure. They worry that relatively simple implementations of this technology paradigm will create such a bubble of hype that software developed over decades will suffer as well, if public opinion crashes in a let-down from high expectations.

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Fact of the matter is, sometimes Layar and other AR services work well and sometimes they don't. None of the mobile applications currently available actually process the live video they are looking at and respond, some just postulate at what should be where you're looking and others look for a very specific marker.

In other words, it's not at all like the Terminator view shown by CNN to illus

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