Weekly Linkfest

Weekly Linkfest

As usual, here's a bunch of links to augmented reality related news bits that have accumulated in my inbox during the week:

• There's no end to the augmented reality browsers phenomenon. Cyclopedia is yet another browser that is based on Wikipedia, Bradesco is helping you find your way around Brazil, and AugmentThis! lets you upload kml files and share them with others.
• Peak.ar on the other hand is a specialized browser from Salzburg Research that only lets you see the names of mountain tops around the world.
• While Wikitude is finally available for the iPhone (but you wouldn't know that if you had visited www.wikitude.org as to the writing of this post).
  
• So, with so many AR browser available, how are they all doing, buisness wise? Gene Becker collected some appstore statistics, that shows that AcrossAir's applications are leading in terms of downloads among the non-free applications available on the American appstore.
• Joe Lamantia on why creating AR content should be accessible to everyone, and how to make it so.
• What's that augmented reality that I mention so much? I guess most of this blog's patrons already know, but here's Scientific American explantion, though I think YDreams' post is far better.
• Campaigns of the week: One for a game named Operation Flashpoint, the other for Fox's Dollhouse (which looks extra sleazy).

This week's video is a lovely tour de force from Oxford's Active Vision Labratory's Robert Castle. Although Ori posted a sneak peak to ISMAR 09, he somehow missed this video. It shows an extension to the PTAMM system that allows "multiple objects to be recognized and localized within multiple maps."



Have a nice week!