I feel like Jerry Seinfeld stressing over minute flaws in my dates like man-hands or low-talking. 

I shouldn’t complain right?  I did ask for an AR business card.  I was just hoping for one I could show at a business meeting with my smartphone. 

That’s all.

(Technically, I’m not sure this second one even intends to be a real business card.)

So it’s another augmented reality business card.  This time from the company Genuine Interactive.  The use of a 3D video landscape within the augment is cute, but there’s one major flaw with this application.  It requires the use of a PC. 

Don’t get me wrong.  I’m all for the AR business card.  I even requested one.  But I need to be able to see it with my smartphone so I can show it to someone on a business trip.  Requiring me to be near a PC to view the AR business card doesn’t mesh well with the social nature of business greetings. 

There are four or five different companies working on AR business cards right now.  They should band together and make iPhone and Android apps for seeing these cards and release the apps for free.  Let the content of their creation be the selling point.  Otherwise this concept will die to the friction of using it. 

Top news around the augmented reality sites seems to be about the iPhone 3.1 release in September and how it will allow for AR apps.  Will be interesting to see how this changes some business plans.

Before that all the talk was about the augmented reality business card from James Alliban.  Jonas from Toxin was disappointed that his product hadn’t gotten as much notice.  Personally, I think it had more to do with the 3D graphics presented on James’ and less with the application of AR.  But now Jonas has gotten notice from Geek Brief TV  and come out with his own Augmented Business Card website, proving that if you want something, you have to ask for it. 

 Next we see a couple of examples of an AR Game called Daft Mania developed for a contest called “Are You Better Than Microsoft.”  The game is similar to Guitar Hero, but with less expensive instruments.   

And last, another example of the AR Game from the new James Cameron Avatar film.