BART Gets Official Augmented Reality App: "Couldn't Find the Train" Is No Longer a Viable Excuse

BART, in partnership with San Francisco-based developer Junaio, released its first official augmented reality app--or, more accurately, its first official augmented reality layer.

Augmented reality adds text or graphic overlays onto real objects as seen by a phone's camera, and while it's often of questionable use (like, say, turning your neighborhood blue as an homage to Avatar), it has a lot of potential to help people find specific locations faster and easier than looking at a map...