Augmented Reality Interactive Documentary?

It's true!  The article that I read is actually from 1999, but it details an application of augmented reality not yet considered by our group.  The goal of this group was to explore augmented reality's suitability in enhancing user interaction with locations.  To accomplish this they designed a system that allowed users to roam about Columbia University's campus and discover different documentary bits of three main topics.

Wearing  a device that looks like something straight out of a familiar movie series, users don a backpack computer, a tablet pc and a head-mounted display and set out around campus.  As they walk around they can find flags dotted all around campus, located and tracked by GPS and a magnetometer orientation tracker.  Users look at a virtual identifier, in this case colored flags, and pull up multimedia content specific to that location, which can reference the user to other tangent topics.  The system that was built is able to handle images, web sites, videos, and 360 degree images using the backpack computer, tablet pc and/or head-mounted display (depending on the multimedia).  Looking at this article I see an interesting use case that would be entirely possible with our software, which could allow people to create virtual tours with videos, images and audio specific to locations.

Source:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.16.6539&rep=rep1&type=pdf