A few weeks ago I attended a meeting on mobile technologies in Chicago and the presenter demonstrated an open source app to build augmented reality applications. For those of you that have not read or seen any examples of mobile augmented reality here's one that was presented in this meeting.
Let's say you wanted to buy some new furniture from IKEA but wasn't sure how to fit it into your living room. Using an augmented reality application, you can use the camera on your mobile phone to view your living room through. Then by using an augmented reality browser and tools from IKEA, you can place the furniture in your living room to see how it would fit. Pretty cool!
I also found an article from a mlearning blog that points out the same type of applications. Imagine using this tool to learn about art in a museum, architecture, retail stores and potential coupons. You start connecting the dots pretty quick to see how this could be used for learning and education as well.
http://mlearning.edublogs.org/?s=augmented+reality&searchbutton=go%21
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