Over the last few months a few interesting Augmented Reality examples have come on the scene. Each a little different, but each showing the potential of mapping information and virtual objects or characters on top of real time displays:
Mini’s Augmented Advertising
http://www.campur.net/blog/2008/12/21/mini-cooper-augmented-reality-ads.html
WikiTude and Enkin’s Apps for the Android Mobile Platform. (leveraging camera, GPS and compass functions)
http://www.mobilizy.com/wikitude.php
http://www.enkin.net/
Iphone Augmented Reality
http://gizmodo.com/5027674/iphone-augmented-reality-program-wont-fool-any-girls
Flash Augmented Reality
http://www.boffswana.com/news/
Augmented reality is partially just a “special effect” right now, but it it does have some really interesting potential especially as all of the components are getting more accurate and the programming more sophisticated.
Definately a topic worth following.