Portable Real Estate Listings — but With a Difference #AR #Layar

The following article appeared in the NY Times about augmented reality (or layaring) and its usage in the online real estate market.  The author was R. Scott Macintosh.  Here is a link to the original article.

Open the mobile phone application offered by a French real estate agency and point your phone at a building along the Champs-Élysées or some other street in Paris. Within seconds, you will see the property’s value per square meter, superimposed over a live image of the building streamed through the phone’s camera.

Speed and convenience delivered with the aim of a smartphone. Could this be the new frontier of on-demand property search?It depends whom you ask.

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