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Makes me think of Snow Crash a bit... plugged in constantly to virtual reality.

I just shipped my first AR app to a customer, and I have been having serious Snow Crash moments in real-life, lately. As a mobile developer, all I can think about now is the death of the native interface, and the new age of the rule of Augmented Reality. Yikes, I've slipped and fallen into the digital hole that is: reality with overlays.

For example I've quite literally got a little 3d animated ghost that sits in the corner of my favourite hangout, which only I can see through my phone when I point its camera in the right angle, which tells me the name of the track being played on the house speakers .. it really is a moment like Snow Crash, played out in real life, I have to say..

Up next, Finn the finger ..

The audio ghost sounds awesome, any chance it's on github?

Nope, its only in my AR app, which has a very specific set of ImageTargets only I have any interest in. ;)

But! Its an awesome tech, and I'm pretty sure its going to hit the store soon enough. I'm currently working on ways to embed tons more stuff within the target matrix .. its mind-boggling to think that any recognizable surface can be the human interface mechanism, now.

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