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By Mercedes Bunz Mobile workers of the world can finally unite, as the neat augmented reality application Worksnug has just been approved by Apple for the iPhone. And you know what? Two days after its approval it is already a hit. Not only has Stephen Fry twittered about it, but it went straight in at number fi...

If you've been wondering why some people have started walked around while holding a smartphone a foot in front of their face, today's column may explain the phenomenon. My story covers something called "augmented reality." That might sound like something you experience after knocking b...

By John Herrman True to their title, augmented reality apps add something to what you see, using a combination of camera, GPS, and sometimes, in the case of the iPhone 3GS, a compass. The result is something like a real-life heads-up display on your phone, and it's spectacular.

By Marshall Kirkpatrick The iPhone has a private API for analysis of live-streaming video but developers' requests that it be made accessible haven't been granted by Apple. The new software opening up access to that API was made freely available to anyone this morning by the team that built it. Sponsor

By Mel Martin Bionic Eye [iTunes link] is an augmented reality app for the iPhone that displays businesses around you superimposed over a live camera picture. originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

By Dave Freeman While Bionic Eye isn’t the first augmented reality browser, it is the first one (at least, the first official one) for the iPhone/iPod crowd, and definitely looks like fun. I don’t know if I’d use the part where it directs you to a location however, that looks like a good way to get mugged.

By Jason Parker I had seen a demonstration of augmented reality on a jailbroken iPhone some time ago, but this is the first iPhone app at the iTunes Store to use augmented reality. Like I mentioned before, this will only work for those with the iPhone 3GS because The Monocle is using the compass (not availab...

By Justin Yu We officially kick off this Monday episode by defining the Web's trendiest new buzzphrase, "augmented reality." We're not sure who came up with it, but it's all the rage in the world of iPhone apps. For example, Yelp built an Easter egg into its app that uses the smartphone's GPS to superimpo...

By John Herrman This is one of the first iPhone apps to use this style of augmented reality, which isn't really supposed to come of age until iPhone OS 3.1. Yelp doesn't explicitly mention this feature in their App Store listing, which I'll take to mean they're still in the testing stages. That won't stop me fr...

By Ben Parr These applications combine virtual data into the physical real world by utilizing the iPhone 3GS or an Android phone’s compass, camera, and GPS system. The result is that you can see things like the location of Twitter users and local restaurants in the physical world, even if they are mil...