Augmented Reality: Reality…and a half, on your iPhones.

We found this video today:

The latest New York Nearest Subway Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS.

The App uses a combination of the GPS, compass and video capabilities of iPhones to offer a real time navigation along NY subways.

Augmented Reality is a small offshoot of a concept that has been the subject of hottest research in computer science- virtual reality. In AR (short for Augmented Reality), real time visuals are combined with unreal computer graphics to create a realistically interactive virtual environment.

So, developers of the world unite! AR is making it’s way through the coming days as Apple is going to make the API for AR available in September 2009.

There will be rise of a whole new generation of AR applications- from AR games to sophisticated navigation systems; from interactive mobile simulations to educational lectures and it will be very hard to not fall into the the temptation of using this delicious technology.

Our team at ChaiONE is also excited;- mainly because we have all had giant cups of coffee to stay awake all night;- and when they broke the news to us, our rheumatic fingers froze on our keyboards and ideas starting spilling out of our brains. Two months is indeed a long time.