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Re:Google Glass sales halted by AndrewKemendo on Thursday January 15, 2015 @02:54PM (#8894942)
This is exactly right, it's not AR. What it has done though for AR is show people the idea of overlaying information on your environment which is a core tenet of AR.

That has been hugely helpful in making the understanding of how AR works accessible to a much wider range of people.

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Re:Google Glass sales halted by jacquesm on Thursday January 15, 2015 @05:38PM (#8895883)
> What it has done though for AR is show people the idea of overlaying information on your environment which is a core tenet of AR.

There are plenty of applications for mobile phones that do a much better job of that.

Examples: the Layar offering and automatic translation of text by moving the phone over the text and reading 'through' the phone.

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Re:Google Glass sales halted by AndrewKemendo on Thursday January 15, 2015 @09:15PM (#8896902)
True, I think worldlens is the best for that.
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Re:Google Glass sales halted by arethuza on Friday January 16, 2015 @04:16AM (#8897881)
The AR mode of Flightradar24 is brilliant - hold your phone up and it overlays the details of a flight on the camera view.
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