I ran an interesting workshop at Mobile World Congress for people interested in augmented reality. The topic, should I build a plug-in for another application or write my own application came up along with how do I make money? So what are the pros and cons of each and is there a 3rd better way?

You want Robot Vision? LinceoVR is a set of tools that enable developers to build augmented reality content, using their SDK a mash-up has been created that allows the Rovio web-cam to recognise markers turning the robot into a games platform.

Building augmented reality applications presents developers with a unique challenge. How do you build a user interface that presents a large amount of data to users, data that needs to reflect distance and location, and may have multiple data in the same location. Visually laying out that data is challenging. We look at some of the unique approaches some developers are taking to solve this problem.

We continue to look at every augmented reality iPhone application available in the Apple appstore. Today we look at navigation.

Imagine using your mobile device to point at any player at a sporting event and being able to have access to related statistics. How far that player has ran, how many goals he has scored as well as other useful information. EYEPLY are a start-up company that are working on such solutions. The future may not be as far away as you think.

QuickMark have recently teamed up with Google who have distributed over 100,000 QR codes to local businesses in the US. The announcement states: "We've identified over 100,000 businesses in the U.S. as "Favorite Places on Google" based on Google users' interaction with local business listings. Each business is receiving a window decal with a unique QR code that you scan with your phone to read reviews, star the business as your own favorite and more."

Rouli at ARTimes has been running a series of predictions this week on what experts in augmented reality predict will happen in 2010. Yesterday Rouli published my predictions, today I take a look at each of my predictions and explain my rational and whether or not I still believe.

Google Goggles must have the CEOs of the various augmented reality browser companies laying awake at night as Google are about to change the way location aware augmented reality browsers work.

Interested in learning more about augmented reality? Get some tips from a company that have no less than 10 augmented reality applications for the iPhone and find out more about their future roadmap.

Part 2 of the head to head augmented reality browser challenge. We test several augmented reality applications on our tourist tour of London. Can you use a browser as your tour guide?

We compare several of augmented reality browsers head to head in our test to find local food. Are they actually any use?