Today's augmented reality games are a fun affair, shoot a few aliens, blow up a few planes, or put out a few fires all from the comfort for your own home. The only danger is banging your knee on a table as you turn around. But as technology gets more sophisticated and graphics get better, what are the implications of augmented reality games, will the technology make them to hot to handle?

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.

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.

Check out the fantastic new augmented reality demo from Total Immersion for Coca-Cola Zero and the upcoming hit movie; Avatar. The demo uses marker based technology on a Coke Zero bottle to engage the viewer into the world of Avatar using cool 3D graphics and augmented reality technology

Ingloble Technologies have released the first ever augmented reality greetings card service which is a dream come true to people like me. I can send a free greetings card that uses augmented reality and send a greetings card that will be remembered. The service works really well and is bound to be sure fire hit this Christmas. Just visit www.arwishes.com to design your card, select the image and a music track, enter the recipients name and a message then hit send and you’re done.

We hear all the time about how augmented reality is going to change our lives and bring the education experience to life. Everything from changing our printed books by including rich interactive multimedia to the way we experience a trip to the museum.

There was around 75 people who make the event andfFeedback from everyone I spoke to has been extremely positive, it's something that you'd like us to do again. A few people offered to donate a venue for next time which will be fantastic, we'll try to get a beer sponsor as well. We will look at planning another event for April so we hope to see you again.

Bit of a late blog today, it’s been a busy day. Most of it has been spent preparing slides and demos for next week. The rest of it has been spent in the garage trying to build some kind of rig that will support an iPhone and web-cam for the demos. Without it, it will [...]

There has been some cool business cards in the past but I love this one. The integration with Twitter is cool

An absolutely must try augmented realty music video from Lost Valentinos. Have endless fun building your own music video and interacting with the band.