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"Digital marketing agency Eyeblaster is using the micro-blogging service in an attempt to increase the personal relevancy of Volkswagen ads. When you key in your Twitter username, your tweets are scanned to analyze which Volkswagen model would best suit you based on the kind of things you talk about on Twitter."

That AR article in full…

Bruce Sterling on the hype-bubble-to-be that is AR:

"Man, what could POSSIBLY offer a bigger self-levitating investment bubble than “Augmented Reality”? “Augmented Financial Reality,” the very idea is pure win! Imagine that we were all soaringly rich because we were deftly pasting video phantoms onto geolocative street corners! Would that situation be any weirder than the early pure-play dotcoms? Heck no it wouldn’t! Because it would be almost exactly the same situation, except even more so, a kind of platform-of-platforms for a Bubble of bubbles.

"Let’s be frank here, shall we? Would it hurt my sci-fi feelings any if Augmented Reality really and truly was “bigger than the web?” No way! I would totally exult in that convulsion. Augmented Reality is like a Philip K Dick novel torn off its paperback rack and blasted out of iPhones. Bring the kool-aid, brother."

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