Layar Takes Shopping Into the Augmented Reality Dimension With In-App Purchasing

Layar, the augmented reality browser, is stepping up its efforts to bring sci-fi-like AR to the world: It's just introduced in-app shopping. Yes, that's the world's first augmented reality store, and it implies all sorts of astonishing potential for all sorts of people--from world travelers to Disney vacationers.

Layar, explaining the new system in a blog posting, makes pretty light of the matter: "Publishers on the Layar platform now have the possibility to offer priced Augmented Reality...