Wikipedia AR on your iPhone

Wikitude is an application developed originally for Android phones that has been adapted for use with the iPhone. You hold up your iPhone and click the application to discover facts about where you are, and points of interest there. It’s also designed to be fully interactive (co-creative) with the ability to input data via your Google, Twitter, Yahoo or OpenID account. Can’t wait to play with this one at KCDC.

Augmented Reality Is Here

Augmented reality is a world where data overlays the real world. One of my very early posts features Kevin Kelly talking about the transition from Web 2.0 (where we are now) to the semantic web (where augmented reality is well and truly with us). The release of iPhone 3GS is moving us one step closer to that vision of a connected, interactive real world.

An augmented reality iPhone application appeared in the apps store yesterday. It works using the iPhone’s video camera, GPS and compass. If you happen to be in Paris, you can hold the iPhone up and data on your phone tells you where the closest Met station is.

iPhone mania

Apple’s iPhone went on sale in Australia today. I hear from friends on Twitter that the queue is still more than 20 deep in Brisbane’s CBD, more than halfway through the day.

Neilsen Online have calculated stats on existing iPhone users, and they rank it 4th overall in the smart phone category. I suspect the numbers are about to be radically altered.