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[wjfox]

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[wjfox]

[Craven]

Soon it will be our everyday reality

[Prolite]

It ain't gonna be my reality. I can't afford a slice of pizza for christ sake never mind augmented reality.

[matturbanowski]

Some smart phone apps already get close to this augmented reality. I think the question lies in artifical intelligence and availability of information. It is still probably a couple of decades away from perfecting image recognition. Even OCR isn't perfect yet and hasn't progressed much for years, and also the information wouldn't always be available until someone actually enters it into the system. By the time this is perfected, it will probably be in the form of contact lenses instead of 'see-thru' tablets.
I look forwards to it though. Especially when it will be able to bring up peoples names, translate speech etc.

[Flatfingers]

For an early peek into the future of augmented reality, there's a game due out late this year that uses it.

I've been watching the development of Traveller AR, an iDevice massively multiplayer roleplaying game (MMORPG) based on Marc Miller's classic tabletop RPG Traveller. In addition to the Traveller stuff, the developers (Ingz out of Austin, Texas) are using the iPhone's camera and GPS to overlay gameworld elements onto wherever you happen to be.

I haven't gotten my hands on it yet, so I don't know how well this will work. (Open beta may start sometime in September.) But is anyone surprised that an early application for AR is in computer games?