Augment My App

Virtually all phones have the inherent ingredients for augmented reality: location awareness, access to a network or information, a camera, and a display. This has allowed many apps to explore augmented reality to varying degrees. Apps like SkyView and SpotCrime bring a significant amount of information to the user that the user would otherwise be unaware of. As networks get faster and image recognition becomes more effective, we may find that we are all walking around holding our phone in front of our faces to see a world where people, buildings, and almost any commonly recognizable item can be described, bought or networked. If humanity really does get to the point that we have this information readily accessible, the real question is, where is the line between being human and being robotic. For example, what will happen to "love at first sight" if whenever we see a person we can see their relationship status and their favorite movies. The human mind is the most powerful computational entity on earth, but it's hard to imagine what humans would do if everything was laid out in front of them. Augmented reality apps could become a little too real by Dan Kricke