Weekly Linkfest

Weekly Linkfest

This week on the linkfest, it's trains, snails and mobile phones:

• Mobilizy released a new Wikitude version. I will use this opportunity to update my earlier post on IBM Wimbledon Seer application. Apparently, it was a joint work with Mobilizy and Ogilvy.
  
• ReadWriteWeb: "Augmented Reality: Here's Our Wishlist of Apps, What's On Yours?", scans through future and current uses of AR, and is one more sign that AR is becoming mainstream.
  
• Total Immersion creates an augmented reality application for Nike, though I can't find it over here.
• And Total Immersion is also behind this AR web/kiosks application for France's SNCF train system (via Developement memo for ourselves).
• What AR devs want from smartphones? A survey at the Future Digital Life.
  
• Two of my favorite things, augmented reality and artificial life are combined to create SimSnails, an educational demo about natural selection.
• Google's has it's own version of Photosynth (and I guess they are not developing it for the sake of pure research).
  
• AR around the world: A German ad for Samsung mobile phones is using AR, and that's about all I can tell you since I don't speak German; Augmented Vision is a design project from the Netherlands that resembles Snaptell; A Japanese augmented Olympic game (via DMFO); And when it comes to this Indonesian application, I can't tell you anything at all.
  

In last week's linkfest I reported about the strange event named "The World Series Of 'Tubing", where two players play card war with Youtube videos render via augmented reality. Surely, such description doesn't make the event any clearer, but luckily the guys behind it have put the following video on Youtube to explain it all: