Useful AR from the US Postal Service

The USPS has a very neat AR application, which is also surprisingly useful. Using FLARToolKit, you can now see if the stuff you intend to send fits in any of the flat-rate boxes. As the novelty augmented reality fad becomes old very quickly, I hope more companies will favor a more useful approach to AR.



Try it yourself here, via Living in Augmented Reality.

2 comments:

David Beaney said...

One of the first FLARToolKit applications that looks useful! Nice find.

Minhee said...

This is a fantastic use of AR technology that actually solves a real problem! I can see this saving so many trips to the post office when you're unsure about package sizes. It reminds me of how Cookie Clicker became addictively useful by turning a simple concept into something people returned to repeatedly.

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