One of my favorite activities on the web is reading new technology related blogs and articles.  I am currently fascinated with the extremely fast pace of technological innovation.  Smartphones are definitely leading the pack with new applications and devices arriving daily.  I recently came across this term “Mobile Augmented Reality(AR)” and I had to explore it further.

What does “Augmented Reality” mean?  This term means a live view of the physical world supplemented (augmented) with virtual computer generated imagery.  So basically it means the enhancement of the physical world with computer graphics or text.  You may have seen this on TV in an NHL hockey game where they put a blue halo around the puck so your eye can follow it better (Canadians don’t need this, it was an American TV station that did this).  TV is just one tool with which you can experience AR.  There are head mounted devices, digital projectors and now mobile smartphones.