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As a pioneer in the area of augmented reality technology, metaio develops software products for systems driven by visual interaction in both real and virtual worlds. Our Unifeye software platform not only lets you place 3D animations directly into live video streams, but also supports the seamless integration of images from the external user environment.

The MIT Teacher Education Program, in conjunction with The Education Arcade, has been working on creating "Augmented Reality" simulations to engage people in simulation games that combine real world experiences with additional information supplied to them by handheld computers.

"The Where 2.0 program navigated along the three tracks of mobile innovations, mapping for consumers, and local opportunities and models. Participants explored topics such as the map as an information ecology, the new meaning of mapping, government's role as a clearinghouse for data, open source mapping, local data, local search, augmented reality, location sharing, mobile cloud, game mechanics, and web vs. native apps."

Virtual Graffiti consists of virtual objects and/or digital messages, images, multimedia or other annotations or graphics applied to public locations, landmarks or surfaces such as walls, train stations, bridges, etc. Virtual Graffiti applications utilize Virtual Reality and Ubiquitous Computing to anchor Virtual Graffiti to physical landmarks or objects in the real world