4 Ways for Augmented Reality to Get Past the Hype
January 4th, 2010 admin

With 197 million augmented reality-capable smartphones set to be in the global market by 2012, up from nearly 91 million in 2010, the building blocks are falling into place for people to merge digital information with their view of the physical world. But while we’re just getting to the point that normal users can see the promise of augmented reality for themselves, there’s still a long way to go. Right now AR is a big load of hype (and why not? it’s super cool), but the market will supposedly be worth anywhere from $350 million to $…
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finkelscott (Scott Finkel) : RT @lsharif: RT@Qualcomm demos augmented reality app for digital photo frames (video) http://t.co/Ajs4rhI via @engadget.. Updated : 2010-09-09T03:09:01Z | Reply | View Tweet |
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