Jan 21, 2011 5:21 AM

Augmented Reality: NeuroSystems

*Nice augmented fabjects – but check out that visual hand-gesture recognition that opens the video.

*It's a good day over at augmented.org; also liking that Spanish kiosk doing realidad aumentata.

http://www.augmented.org/blog/2011/01/augment-tourist-places-edit-reality-and-render-it/

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