Weekly Augmented Reality Linkfest

To my many readers coming from Japan - my heart goes to you, and I hope your families are safe. It's difficult to discuss "augmented reality" in the face of "tragic reality", but I'll do my best with this week's linkfest.

• Technology Review: Turning augmented reality into an open standard - on Georgia Tech's Argon.
• 2011 is the year of the tablets. yawn. 2012, though, may be the year of facial recognition.
  
• Zugara wins DEMOGod award for AR webcam social shopper
• Feng Shui made easy with mobile an augmented reality app.
• Sims creator Will Wright dipping into augmented reality?
• Drums lesson using projected AR.

This week's video is a call for help to create the first crowed sourced AR music video. Led by students of Tokyo's Temple University, fans of the British band Songdog are invited to contribute their own clips featuring an AR marker. According to their site (where you can find more details) "Augmented Reality is used to symbolize all that one can remember, but that is lost forever - you can see it, but you can't touch it". A beautiful idea that I hope will come true in spite of the unexpected challenges facing it.


Have a good week!