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Augmented Reality & Twitter: proof of concept

I doubt many of you have missed this but those that did have to check out this proof of concept video for AR Twitter which can show you the location of nearby Tweeters.

Unfortunately this kind of functionality isn't officially available yet because Apple haven't released the code that developers would need to access the live video feed from an iPhone.

However, this is rumoured to be coming in the 3.1 software update and with the iPhone positioned to be one of the best AR platforms available I would be very surprised if Apple didn't have plans to allow developers to use the live video feed in the near future.

And for those of you still in the dark about Augmented Reality here's a little video to explain things:

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