Say augmented reality to any iPhone owner and they'll say Wikitude or Layar. A detailed scan through the appstore shows there are more browsers than any other category of mobile augmented reality application. We continue the ultimate guide to iPhone augmented reality and focus on the augmented reality browser. Are there any threats to the Wikitude crown? What's hot and what's not.

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.

iDRNAVI is a multifunctional drive-recorder that displays GPS data, acceleration, speed. Its also a GPS logger, will record up to 120 minutes of video and should you have a crash it will email the impact to any email address you specify. With a description and functionality like that it was just begging to be installed and tested. But is it as good as it sounds?

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

Augmented reality is the latest greatest craze, but is it good? Are we sharing to much information with the world and leaving ourselves open for exploitation in the future? What are the negatives and when will AR come back and bite us on the arse. Ban it now before it's to late. The case against augmented reality.

Now is a good time to be thinking about releasing an augmented reality application, but what's out there in the appstore already? Searching the appstore for 'augmented reality' used to produce a single page of results, these days there are hundreds of apps all fighting for your attention and hard earned pennies. We thought we would take a look and see what applications are available. Welcome to part one of the ultimate guide to iPhone augmented reality applications.

I was on holiday when WhereMark hit the iPhone store in December but I was in contact with the developers back in September when they released a preview video to Youtube and remember being excited about it. Having had a chance to test the released version I have to say they have done a pretty good job and lived up to my expectations.

Wikitude 4 has hit the Android and has numerous improvements. Firstly Wikitude 4 supports miles as well as kilometers so no more wondering if 7.5km is to far to walk. I'm really happy about this change and I'm glad my nagging has paid off. Wikitude 4 also boasts many new features and a UI refresh which looks really cool.

Announcing AugmentedRealityNews. AugmentedRealityNews is your one stop shop for all things AR. We'll seek out the headlines from blogs, products and news sources and bring them together into one single list. You'll always be up to date with whats happening and will have the latest headlines as they are published.

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.

Just a quick happy Christmas post today as I know many of you are finishing work for the holiday.  I’m behind with blogging, emails, and twitter as I am on holiday in Brazil and getting online isn’t always easy. There is something strange about Christmas in the sun, it doesn’t feel real. Whatever you are doing [...]