Augmented Reality: Here's Our Wishlist of Apps, What's. There's another dimension present, everywhere we go, that a growing number of technologists are working to uncover.
These people aren't talking about theoretical physics or a magical world of fairies and gnomes - they're talking about information that could offer more context to traditionally physical lived experience. Augmented Reality (AR) is the phrase being used and this practice of making layers of data available on top of real world experiences could be a big one soon. Improvements in geolocation, bandwidth, mobile devices and APIs are the foundation of this feeling that a useful Augmented Reality may be more realistic today than ever before.
AR isn't new, but it's been pretty hokey so far. Now there's a movement to make it really worth doing. WuChess. Pitchplayer.com.