CNET has posted an article on how augmented reality is poised to be going mainstream. If you ask me, some of the companies look like they have a ways to go before they will be available acceptable to the general public.

To an unenlightened observer, Ron Haidenger’s demonstration of playing a video game by tilting a piece of cardboard back and forth looks more than a little bit nutty.

But to anyone wearing his company’s computer-enhanced glasses, which seamlessly delete the image of the cardboard and replace it with a metal ball spinning through a gleaming three-dimensional maze, it’s a near-hypnotic experience.

via Augmented reality edges closer to mainstream @ CNET News.