Weekly Linkfest

Weekly Linkfest

Anyone is coming to WARM 2010?
The augmented reality society is coming out of its winter hibernation, and we have quite a few links to AR related stories this week:

• QderoPateo are developing an AR dedicated device. GigaOM asks why ('hich is a good reason to plug my "The Kindle Test" post)
• Augmented Planet was bountiful this week with "The case against augmented reality" that tries hard, but fails to find bad use-cases unique to AR; Their "Ultimate guide to iPhone augmented reality" is a very thorough review of, well, iPhone AR applications; And, I forgot to mention it last week, but they've launched Augmented Reality News, which aggregates many AR blogs into one stream.
• VentureBeat queries Metaio and Layar about the next generation of AR applications.
• On the other hand, Blake Callens at OneZeroThrice complains about the current state of augmented reality - "Can I have GOOD Mobile Augmented Reality Yet?"
  
• BoingBoing featured a very strange artsy video about augmented dating.
• Having problems getting your kids dressed in the morning? Brights&Stripes created a magic tee to help out.
  
• And if you have a couple of hours to burn, ComputerWorld has a long, long review of AR.

And this week's video is the perfect example of AR being misused. A couple of young Dutch guys calling themselves "Teletekst Is Dood" (teletext is dead) assisted by the Layar browser have terrorized non-suspecting citizens (and their neighbors) whose only fault was to tweet about banal things. Yeah, I guess you can call it art:

Teletekst is dood are a bunch of Layars from David Veneman on Vimeo.

Have a nice week (but be careful about who is reading your boring tweets)!