another trend in mobile--apple

This from Read/Write

The cranky elves that run the iPhone App Store may be warming up after all to the emerging field of Augmented Reality (AR). AR app makers, who are building sci-fi-like interfaces for viewing data about the physical world on top of the mobile phone's camera, were beginning to feel spurned.

Today Apple both approved the most eagerly anticipated Augmented Reality app yet, Amsterdam's AR browserLayar (iTunes link), and made its primary challenger, Wikitude (iTunes link), a featured app in the iTunes App Store.