http://www.marketmatador.com/2009/12/07/review-of-augmented-reality-and-layar-reality-browser-v3-0/ The Financially Savvy Source Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:50:05 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.marketmatador.com/2009/12/07/review-of-augmented-reality-and-layar-reality-browser-v3-0/comment-page-1/#comment-5793 Wilson Foster Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:04:28 +0000 http://www.marketmatador.com/?p=863#comment-5793 The problem with augmented reality right now isn't the concept, it's the lack of supporting infrastructure to make it appealing. We are still very much in the infancy of augmented reality on the consumer side, and as more information is integrated into the services, the benefits will become more and more noticeable. For now, you're right in calling it a gimmick, but in the next few decades I think we'll see a huge jump in augmented reality products that not only give geographical and business information, but incorporate facial recognition software as well. The problem with augmented reality right now isn’t the concept, it’s the lack of supporting infrastructure to make it appealing. We are still very much in the infancy of augmented reality on the consumer side, and as more information is integrated into the services, the benefits will become more and more noticeable. For now, you’re right in calling it a gimmick, but in the next few decades I think we’ll see a huge jump in augmented reality products that not only give geographical and business information, but incorporate facial recognition software as well.

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