What gadget will be better, more fun, and likely as big a hit at CES and with consumers as Parrot’s AR.Drone? The upcoming new high-def and vastly improved AR.Drone 2.0 to be unleashed at CES 2012, of course!

What gadget will be better, more fun, and likely as big a hit at CES and with consumers as Parrot’s AR.Drone? The upcoming new high-def and vastly improved AR.Drone 2.0 to be unleashed at CES 2012, of course!

Vodafone New Zealand is giving its customers a taste of augmented reality on their mobile phones in a marketing campaign designed to tie in with its sponsorship of the New Zealand Music Awards.

Microsoft has licensed augmented reality technology from GeoVector to enable it to add augmented reality functions to its mobile devices.

Microsoft has begun spilling the beans about what users and developers can expect in the next version of Windows Phone.

Vision based augmented reality - the melding of real world information gathered through the camera of a smartphone or tablet with related information sourced from the Internet - is poised to see the introduction of a whole range of killer apps, and Qualcomm has taken an early lead.

Determined to be different is the Commonwealth Bank’s slogan, with the company having ditched the memorable “let’s offend Americans” campaign, switching now to augmenting your reality instead!

A new iPhone app from the Commonwealth Bank enables users to point their Apple phone at a house and get an instant valuation. At least that's the way it works in theory.

Lonely Planet has finally decided to allow its customers in Australia to purchase its series of augmented reality travel guides for Android handsets. The Compass Guides cover popular cities in Asia (including Sydney), Europe and the US.

IBM's Seer augmented reality application for the Australian Open grand slam tennis tournament isn't perfect, but it does have a lot going for it.