Weekly Linkfest

Weekly Linkfest

Some other augmented reality news from around the web:

• Microsoft uses a cheap AR trick to promote the new SQL server
• YDream's "Playing in an Augmented World" (which we mentioned here) wins honorable mention at the MIX09 showoff competition. Congrats Antão and team!
• Games Alfresco: ArToolKit Wins the Oscar of Virtual Reality
• Inspiring low-income youth using augmented reality part one and two, an initiative by these guys.
  

And we could not avoid embedding videos of two of the augmented reality games presented at the Game Development Conference (Ori was first to report about those two):

• Killing zombies on Nvidia's Tegra (by Georgia Tech):
  


• PIT Strategy, an augmented reality board game, by Beyond Reality
  

Vuzix and Metaio Team Up to Create AR Goggles

Vuzix and Metaio Team Up to Create AR Goggles

Vuzix and Metaio have announced yesterday at the Game Developers Conference an accessory kit for the Vuzix VR920 eyewear. The kit contains a clip on camera (named CamAR) for VR920, which allows the user to see the real world while wearing those goggles, and PhasAR, which is some kind of three-dimensional, six-degrees-of-freedom joystick, in order to interact with the augmented objects. Currently the system looks for fiducial markers, but theoretically, it shouldn't be limited to only those.



The full press release is here.
So, good news for Noha who doesn't need to wait for Vuzix's AV920 Wrap, to play with AR goggles, but of course, he didn't wait and implemented his own version of AR kit for VR920 a while ago.
Updating the score board: Metaio: 2, Total Immersion: 2.

Update: Ori shot the following clip at GDC -