As was said so eloquently by Ilya Vedrashko at (http://adverlab.blogspot.com) and (http://www.futurelab.net)
“Augmented Reality is the new Second Life”
From the looks of things, in SL years (blue circles) we are at about a mid-2007 comparative level of hype for augmented reality (green squares)!
Here are the Google Trends charts for both, overlaid. Check it out for yourself at:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=second+life&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
and
http://www.google.com/trends?q=augmented+reality&sa=N
What can I say, we are just fanatics for anything resembling a hockeysticks, hype-cycles, and mountainous landscapes!
[-MRO]