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Weekly Linkfest – The Lady Gaga Edition
Aug 8th
This linkfest has nothing to do with Lady Gaga, and everything to do with augmented reality news bites from the last week. I’m just checking if the mere inclusion of miss Gaga in the title will generate more hits.
- Christopher Mitchell hacked together a Vuzix VR920 HUD and eeePC to create a basic facial recognition AR device for his master thesis.
- Augmented Planet posted their monthly report on AR application for the iPhone.
- I’m terribly late on this, but apparently on ARE 2010, Georgia Tech previewed their open source and open standards Kamra Mobile AR Browser. Have to thank Chris Grayson for bringing it to my attention.
- Twenty five of Lonely Planet’s travel guides get a dose of augmented reality, powered by Wikitude.
- Samsung’s Bada mobile OS seems to be the hip place for AR games development. This time it’s our pals at int13 with their release of ARDefender game.
- Metaio is holding a one day long conference called insideAR. I usually don’t promote such events, but they got me when they bundled it with Oktoberfest. Augmented reality and Beer, a match made in heaven?
This week’s video is a promotion video for Sekai Camera. Tonchidot, the company behind this veteran AR browser recently got a $5M from Japan’s telecom giant KDDI (though some claim that KDDI actually bought Tonchidot). And if that’s not enough, Tonchidot announced the creation of social AR game. The future looks bright for those guys:
Have a great (and cool) week!
Weekly Linkfest
Jul 4th
After a month long hiatus, it’s back! The weekly linkfest is here, with a fresh batch of links:
- Top headline of the week obviously goes to Qualcomm, which will launch a free vision based AR framework for Android this fall. In order to encourage developers to use their SDK, Qualcomm holds a contest for best use of the framework, first prize is $125000. I have to get myself an Android phone and start working on that AR Farmville concept! Who’s with me?
- int13 (missed you guys!) brings very smooth marker based augmented reality to the feeble Nintendo DSi. They’re also submitting AR games to Samsung’s Bada store.
- French Laster Technologies creates AR eyewear that isn’t revolting (at that’s a complement!)
- Layar now used as an art canvas in an interesting project with a Dutch museum.
- Yes, you can even market cancer using augmented reality.
Video of the week shows a social hacking feat which will probably become a common practice as AR goes mainstream. Mark Skwarek and Joseph Hocking created “The leak in your home town”, an augmented reality application for the iPhone, which displays a virtual oil spill whenever you set the phone’s camera on a BP logo. Don’t expect to see it on the AppStore anytime soon. (via Beyond the Beyond):
Happy 4th of July to our American visitors!
Weekly Linkfest
Jan 10th
This week was dominated by the Parrot’s ARDrone, which is just about the coolest toy I’ve seen in a while, made even cooler by augmented reality from our friends at int13. Other AR news articles making the rounds this week:
- Techcrunch (1) discovers the VR versus AR Google trends graph. I think just about every other AR blog featured it at some moment.
- The Guardian had an interesting article (featuring this blog) “Seven things you need to know about augmented reality” followed by a piece about AR and the future of journalism.
- Laboratory 4 had a nice roundup on the current state of AR “The reality of augmented reality” that got a follow up by Blair MacIntyre.
- Techcrunch (2) covered yet another AR browser named Nomao.
- And yet another brand of sugary cereals use AR to augmented its boxes.
Our weekly video comes from Techcrunch (3), and I’m quite sure most of you will find it non-AR. Yet, since it really makes you see things differently, exposing hidden information not available to most of us in any other way, I tend to call it AR. It’s called SnapTax, and it helps you fill up your taxes by taking a picture of your tax forms (if you are a US citizen).
Have a great week!
