Weekly Augmented Reality Linkfest

Weekly Augmented Reality Linkfest

This tradition cannot be stopped, here's another weekly linkfest:

• Pocket Lint posted many articles about AR celebrating "AR Week", and I must admit that I haven't read any one of those yet for a lack of time. But they do seem interesting though!
  
• Sony follows Nintendo's lead, and demos augmented reality on the next gen PSP. Is this evidence of AR becoming a must have feature for mobile games platforms?
• Stealth AR startup Bubbli to make "the virtual and the real become indistinguishable", and they are looking for workers. If only I was living in California ...
• Join the army they said, train using augmented reality they said.
  
• Layar is now available on Symbian, joining old rival Wikitude.
• BTW, congrats to Layar for being one of MIT's Technology Review 50 most innovative companie, next to giants like Facebook, Apple and Google. Also there - PrimeSense of Kinect's fame.

This week's video comes from Robert Scoble's tour in SRI International, showing a handbag buying application, using Kinect to make it seem like a real handbag is actually dangling from the lady's arm. See more videos, including one aboud head mounted display based AR gaming, in this post, titled "A Look At How SRI Is Augmenting The Human Condition":



Have a great week!

Snowy Weekly Linkfest

Snowy Weekly Linkfest

Back. It seems that I escaped London on the very last minute before the airports closed down. Here's a rundown of augmented reality links for the last couple of weeks:

• PrimeSense, Willow Garage, and Side-Kick Games join hands to create to OpenNI an organization whose goal is to promote natural interaction. First step was releasing 'official' drivers for Kinect.
  
• DanKam, an AR application for the color blind, is simple and brilliant in the same time, and at least according to my twitter feed, it actually works.
• Here we go again. The Augmented Reality Summit to be held in London on June 16th is the first of 2011 crop of commercial AR events.
• Metaio have some cool augmented magic tricks to celebrate Christmas.
• Follow this link to see a video of bad acting and terrible music. Oh, and some clever eye tracking based augmented reality UI from Helsinki university of technology.
• A nice piece on Neatorama, which went QR crazy lately, on surprising mediums for QR codes, including a sand castle and a M&Ms.

The biggest news these days is Word Lens. I'm sure you have all seen it already, and I plan to write full post on it next week, but for the oft chance you haven't yet encountered it - it's augmented reality based translation app for the iPhone. Or in other words, magic:




Have a great week, winter/summer solstice and merry Christmas!