Weekly Linkfest

I hate August. It's too darn hot over here. Luckily there a few cool and refreshing augmented reality stories this week:

• Lester of Augmented Planet on why augmented reality glasses are 20 years away. I sadly have to agree. It's another reason why people should consider publicly-installed AR projectors has a viable option.
• Augmented Planet also bring us the story of one gigantic marker and the world's largest AR project.
  
• Damon Hernandez continues with his video interviews series, this time with the "AR magician", Marco Tempest (with some behind the scenes at some of his magics).
• In Indonesia, even a celery can be sexy with the aid of augmented reality (via @TalkingDogAR)
• Real-time OCR/translation of Chinese text through iPhone video camera from Pleco Software is coming soon.
• Change your eye color, look like you have been possessed by a deamon , all via augmented reality - Angel Eyes.
• There was a lot of buzz around Metaio's iPhone-augmented magazine (it's a first under some assumptions).
  

This week's video is of a year old, yet cool project by Karolina Sobecka with software development by Jim George. Sniff is a projected virtual dog that interacts with people passing it on the street. You can find lots more detail over Sobecka's site (where you can watch other fun projector based projects, like Chase). [via Augmentology]

Sniff from karolina sobecka on Vimeo.

Have a good week!