welcome to a world of augmented reality

this talk from TED 2010 is a fascinating glimpse at where augmented reality is quickly headed. incredible.

i find it really interesting to see how microsoft's bing maps are integrating crowdsourced imagery from yahoo's flickr to create software straight out of star trek.

on a week that google released its incredibly dour and uninspired buzz product to the market, microsoft notch up an easy (albeit rare) PR points victory over its online rival.