Weekly Linkfest

Weekly Linkfest

Here are some more augmented reality news stories that happened this week:

• MIT's Sixth Sense to be open-sourced. Well, I know most don't see any future in projector enabled augmented reality, yet there's more to Sixth Sense than a projector (gesture recognition, image recognition), and it's a lot more feasible than see-through HMD AR at this stage, so quite exciting news.
• Augmented Planet has started doing a head to head comparison of the different AR browsers out there. Rumor has it that round two features very surprising results.
• More from Augmented Planet - vote for your favorite AR application this year and you may win a Chumby.
• Campaigns:
• A demo of Esquire's augmented reality issue. The comments are even more interesting than the video itself - "Holy balls you guys are innovative! Props!".
  
• Wear a virtual hockey mask by Xcel Energy, or in other words, augmented reality is for kids.
• Seat using augmented reality to sell cars? That's nothing like I've seen before.

We are signing off this week with a new video out of TU Graz, showing adding annotations online to panoramas. I've written about it in more detail before, here, so we can just relax and enjoy the video this time:



Have a nice week!