Did it really take them this long to make use of Neven Vision? http://www.steverubel.com/google-building-augmented-reality-to-android
<<Imagine you're a tourist and you arrive at this place and you want to know more about it,” said (Google Product Manager Hartmut) Neven on a visit to the Santa Monica pier in Los Angeles the show off the technology. “All you will have to do is take a picture of the sign. We send the information up to the serverand we recognize this as the Santa Monica pier. The idea is you see something that interests you, you whip out your camera phone, take a picture of the object of interest, and this will trigger a Google search.>>
I remember seeing augmented reality on the droid does page as well, but it may have disappeared when it actually came out |
If I'm not mistaken, Nokia has a similar app. You might find it under the beta apps website.
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Poor humans, knowing so little about the world without help of a computer ... I'm glad we seem to be friends :-) *crosses fingers* |
An android app called PlinkArt (http://www.plinkart.com/) already does this for paintings. It was one of the winners of the recent android developer challenge. |