What does a monolithic company that mastered mainframes and built the "Jeopardy"-crushing Watson do for an encore? If the company is Big Blue, it creates an AR shopping app with some top-shelf U.S. retailers.
AR firm Layar reveals Creator--an attempt to turn printed material into a portal to digital content. Harry Potter's animated newspapers may yet be real.
Do you know what augmented reality apps are really good at? Directing you to new things they don't directly point at. It's a whole new world of discovery.
Google's Glass augmented reality system may be the smartphone (smartspecs?) of the near future, neatly linking our digital lives with our real ones. Is this a good thing?
