Augmented-reality for your phone

The amount of applications for the iPhone and Googles Android continue to grow and impress. Latest ground-breaking product comes from a company in Austria called Mobilizy who just launched wikitude. Its a travel guide like no other. You just point your Google phone at a landmark and the screen fills with linked in pop-ups from Wikipedia that give useful information on the landmark's description, stories, dates, etc. As they point out on their website: The truly compelling feature is the augmented reality cam view, users may hold the phone’s camera against a spectacular mountain range and see the names and heights displayed as overlay mapped with the mountains in the camera. Users may look out of an airplane window to see what is down there. Users may walk through a city like Seville, Spain, holding the phone’s camera against a building and Wikitude tells what it is. I think that is an amazing teaching tool. Ideas for use that come to mind lab training, campus and building walk-throughs, getting new hires onboarded quickly, etc.