Looked into these apps briefly today. My theory here is that it's a lot of very impressive technology, all coming together to produce something ... not very useful.
Holding up your camera and having points of interest, ATMs, restaurants, whatever, overlaid on the image in real-time sounds like a pretty cool idea. It's just not that useful. Let's face it, you're going to feel like a right knob spinning around in the middle of the street, peering at your phone. It's nothing that a map app couldn't do faster and better.
One slightly interesting app is "AR Soccer" (YouTube vid here). It's not bad. I can't imagine playing it too often. More of a gimmick. But at least it actually provides some type of entertainment. The collision detection isn't perfect but it's quite good. I want to give AR Defender a try but I don't want to waste another $1.20 on something I'll never play again.
Also I noticed AR Girl (YouTube vid here) but if you think I'm paying good money for a non-existent dancing girl, you've got another thing coming. Especially when you can see real girls dancing in any nightclub. Now, if you could reach in with your hand and start removing her clothing and tickling her, they'd be making millions (mostly pre-teen boys would be buying it, I would think).
Guess this is just one more step on the road to holographic, heads-up overlays projected directly onto our eyeballs. Or holographic strippers taking off their clothes on our desktops at work. Either way, we're heading in the right direction.
-Gray
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