What is AR?

"AR" is an acronym for "augmented reality." For those who don't know AR is adding digital images, text or information to a real-time image/video of the real world.

Take the photo to the left, for example. The iPhone user is pointing the camera on his phone at a building. The application then provides the rest of the information and overlays it on a visual layer.

Take a look at this video, it's a more fun application of AR:

Virtual Ribbons from James Alliban on Vimeo.

I know it seems like this technology is WAY beyond anything you can do at this point, but it's not. You can do it in Flash. Check out this tutorial from Adobe and learn just how easy it can be to create amazing AR applications.