Weekly Linkfest

Weekly Linkfest

Yep, I was too busy this week to write posts, and the coming week doesn't seem to be better. Luckily, there's always the weekly linkfest, where I can point to news stories that I haven't covered this week (some of those you might have seen if you are following me on twitter):

• Augmented Planet's Lester Madden has been to the World Mobile Congress and brings us some highlights.
• At the WMC, Layar announced the launch of an "augmented reality appstore" (how's that link for SEO?), where publishers would sell layers. Oh, and their scored another $3.4M in funding.
  
• Sequence Point, on their end, announced the creation of OpenMAR a fully open source project based on their ARound application, to bring augmented reality to the Symbian platfrom. (more on this when I'll have time)
  
• Augmented reality game using a Rubik's cube as changeable marker.
• Augmented reality as the ultimate user manual, interview with the guys behind the AR for Maintenance and Repair project.
• Tiny Dreamy Stories - Augmented book using RFID instead of marker, and changeable storyline at Laval Virtual.
• Your Face Is A Social Business Card - TAT's iPhone face recognition app is no longer just a concept video.
• Total Immersion enters the realm of virtual eyewear.

The weekly video is of a concept application that merges historical photographs of buildings with the images captured by a mobile phone. Created by the Dutch MonkeyPunch group it shows what could happen if Microsoft will add a web interface to their latest batch of Photosynth features: