Augmented reality via your phone
Posted on August 15th, 2009 by Craig Newmark
Okay, the deal is that the Net has a lot of information regarding the stuff around you, say restaurants or public transportation.
A smart phone, with GPS, movement sensing, a camera, and a decent Net connection could figure out where you are, and overlay the camera view with what's going on.
Check out Mobile phones get cyborg vision from the BBC:
I'm really excited about these kinds of apps; but they have to get the cost way down before they can get the volume of customers. The real worlds target is 9.95/19.95 a month.