Finally, Augmented Reality from someone who knows what they're doing...

Freedom TM by Daniel Suarez sold about a zillion copies, and he describes what Augmented Reality should be.  The glasses should be stylish, continuously network-connected, and have enough understanding of the environment to allow synthetic artifacts, identity recognition ( including floating labels) and full 2 way voice and video communication.

Pretty sure Meta is the first product (well, kickstarter ) to understand this.

It's different than Oculus Rift in that Meta has clear lenses to add to the real environment (AR) vs Oculus Rift which is Virtual Reality (VR).

Let's see what happens.

Cool example of Augmented Reality

Marco Tempest uses Augmented Reality to improve an old card trick
http://boingboing.net/2012/12/10/augmented-reality-card-routine.html
This is almost as good as his talk on Tesla

Oh yeah BTW, the Oculus Rift VR headset, (possibly the first mass market VR rig) is delayed until next april  :-/