Weekly Augmented Reality Linkfest

Weekly Augmented Reality Linkfest

It's a link apocalypse!

• Many of the AR community went to the second annual Augmented Reality Event. Sadly, I wasn't able to be there, but luckily, Augmented Citizen share some thoughts and presentations from the event, Locative Media have some "pirated videos" of the keynotes and Layar uploaded videos of a couple of their presentations to Youtube. If you have a video or a blog post about the event - send me an email or give me a tweet.
  
• Sander Veenhof is a genius (there, I said it!) and Layar should be paying him money for choosing their platform if they don't already do so. This time he came up with a way to use augmented reality to create a world wide synchronized dancing routine. It's an augmented macarena!
  
• With Disney's mobile phone projector you can play games on walls and interact with real life objects.
  
• Tablets and democratization: Metaio & Layar pinpoint next steps for augmented reality (via @bruces).
  
• Sony SmartAR delivers high-speed markerless augmented reality and according to Engadget, it also blows minds.
• Scott Blake creates art using QR codes.
  

This week's video is of a simple augmented reality game, called Tapcloud with an interesting premise. By chasing virtual cloud (and looking a little bit foolish), the game forces you to get some exercise, and even counts the number of calories you burned once it's game over. The game is available for free on the app store, so you have nothing to lose (except, again, calories).

Have a tremendous week!