Nokias City Lens Hopes to Make Augmented Reality Mainstream

At its Windows Phone 8 event in New York City, Nokia not only showed off its flagship Lumia 920, it also showed off some of Nokia's unique Windows Phone apps and features, including its new PureView Camera and Nokia City Lens technologies.

Nokia's City Lens is an augmented reality (AR) application that allows users to find things to do -- and get more information about a location -- simply by pointing their phone's camera at a location.

The app was released in beta back in May and the final version of the app is available in the Windows Marketplace, as well as on the Lumia 920.

Mashable's Emily Price remarked in our live chat that the early versions of the app worked quite w…
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