Augmented Reality and Gaming

Just stumbled across this link on the Interwebz today, as I was taking a prolonged study break. Augmented Reality is still relatively new to the world, but there have already been a myriad of applications — tagging restaurants and other services, but now — gaming.

The following video shows two guys playing Rock Em Sock Em Robots on their restaurant table through their mobile devices. While they look kind of goofy, I think that this new method of gaming is going to encourage mainstream gamers to get more social. (While also sparking outrage from hardcore gamers, probably.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXtq1qBMLIw&feature=player_embedded#!

Check it out, tell me what you think! All this Augmented Reality stuff gets quite disturbing though…pretty soon it might seem normal to wear glasses and see the world only through a pair rather than using our natural eyes. (I mean glasses as in AR glasses, not normal people glasses — I sometimes forget that I wear glasses, haha. Proof of technology being ubiquitous?)