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Since I learned about it last summer, I’ve become intrigued by the possibilities offered by Augmented Reality or AR technology. Some of my earlier blogs have highlighted AR applications which can be used to help you “try on” clothes prior to making an online purchase, to get information on your mobile audio/video device (aka phone) about a business as you approach it walking down the street or to find your car in the mall parking lot.

I showed this Pranav Mistry “SixthSense” TED video to my students last night and could tell that it opened some of their eyes to new possibilities. Mistry describes “SixthSense” as a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

Watch it and I think you’ll be amazed, too.

What do you think?

A few weeks ago, I posted a blog about John Mayer is using augmented reality with his new album and how the technology will be incorporated into a new book about Michael Jackson which will be released just in time for Christmas.

Augmented Reality is becoming a hot topic. BusinessWeek magazine has an article in its November 23rd issue about the Dutch startup, Layar which makes free software that developers can use to associate digital info with specific locations. On the BusinessWeek website, technology editor Peter Elstrom interviews Stephen H. Wildstrom who wrote an article, “Augmented Reality:Not That Real Yet” for the magazine. You can read the article and listen to the interview here:
http://bit.ly/2kWiRx

Meanwhile, the December 2009 edition of Esquire magazine with Robert Downey, Jr. on the cover is titled the Augmented Reality issue. I think you’ll enjoy this video:

And you’ve got to watch this from Pranav Mistry at TEDIndia

So, how do you see augmented reality being incorporated into your life?