You may be familiar with augmented reality apps for the iphone. They've been around a few years. One of my favorites is an augmented iphone application that shows you information about nearby landmarks and historic locations on your iphone's viewfinder. Point at the Washington Monument, for example, and you will see the Wikipedia entry over the landmark. The app is called Cyclopedia and relies on 65,000 entries on Wikipedia that are geotagged. One golfers would find useful is Golfscape GPS Rangefinder. It covers 35K+ courses and displays the distance from front, center or back of the green. See descriptions of these and other 38 other augmented reality iPhone applications at
http://www.iphoneness.com/iphone-apps/best-augmented-reality-iphone-applications/
Some wonder, though, how we can take advantage of augmented reality at work. Now we have one answer for librarians. Miami University's Augmented Reality Research Group has developed an Android app that reads a bookshelf with an AR overlay, flags those books that are misplacaed and even points to the correct place on the bookshelf so the book can be re-shelved correctly and easily. Read more about this awesome augmented reality app at
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/awesome_augmented_reality_app_could_save_librarian.php
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