It may be a bit longer before compelling, popular and user-desired AR stuff starts showing up everywhere, but our global partner Microsoft just moved the yardsticks at least 10 yards with the release of a toolkit supporting Silverlight AR apps on mobile devices ---
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/now_silverlight_does_augmented_reality_too.php#more
One of the reasons this is interesting is that, as you fanboys of the iPhone are wont to whine about, Flash doesn’t yet run on the Apple mobile OS (yes on Android and yes on Symbian).
Does this give Silverlight a competitive opening into mobile via potentially usable AR applications?
Does Microsoft have a rejuvenated sense of its place and potential in this final * ; > * frontier of consumer experience (see the new awesome mobile OS release @ MWC last week)?
Where does the future of Nokia’s OS lie - Symbian3 , Maemo, Meego *?
Why is Apple running big-buy TVC in the US sans a new product release?
When was the last time you developed a mobile app ---- with an AR extension? (‘Soon’, is an acceptable answer)
If an AR application falls in Midtown and everyone is in the East Village does it still make any noise?
And – whilst we’re getting jiggy geek: rumours abound re: upcoming Intel announcement in early March. “Gamechanger” yah-di-yah-di-yah-duh… could it have something to do with Meego the possible tablet and large format mobile OS of all our shared futures? Maybe time to buy some Nokia stock…
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