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Point & Find is Nokia’s Augmented Reality browser in beta: “Just point you phone at real-world objects and find relevant information and services”

I signed up but it costs $500 USD just for a month to play around with so quickly left. As Tom’s post points out, open source (and cross-platform) versions may well have more uptake and be more successful, such as the SREngine.

(via The Future Digital Life)

UPDATE: Just tested the free Point & Find client in the wild at Cambridge Vue cinema. Pointed it at 5 different film posters/advertising boards: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Bruno, Transformers 2, some film with a rat and The Hangover. Randomly changing film guesses were displayed for all but The Hangover! For The Hangover the trailer link worked great - streaming the trailer into RealPlayer fine - and show times were correctly listed (after being prompted for postcode, would have been nice if it had used the network cell ID and/or GPS for location).