Some news about a couple of interesting developments in the world of Augmented Reality on the desktop, with technologies developed for Flash and Silverlight.

Although the desktop AR has a couple of interesting applications, I don't think I've seen anything that really interests me in that area– they just seem to be more gimmicky than really interesting or useful. The mobile world, where a cameraphone becomes more than just something for taking quick snaps and becomes a tool for accessing and interacting with information from the internet seems much more exciting to me– and of course, we haven't yet seen any mobile devices that can properly run Flash or Silverlight applications. And my guess is that by the time we do, there will be other programming platforms that will be much more strongly established.

But still– it's interesting to see platforms being established that will make desktop AR easier to implement.