It will be a challenge cramming all of this week’s links into seven bullet points and a video, but I’ll try my best:
- This week featured a couple of augmented Easter eggs hunts, but only one, as far as I can tell, April fools prank – Kooaba sold for $50 million on eBay. Last year pranks were a bit more exciting.
- Layar launched on April 1st, an AR version of the game Splinter Cell, played on the streets of Amsterdam.
- ARWave at O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference.
- HIT Lab NZ released a new version of their AR platform for Android.
- Mixare reports on the accuracy of smart phones compasses
- On the one hand, there’s an app to get Londoners read more books (via DMFO).
- On the other hand, there’s an app that helps you locate the nearest Pizza Hut parlor.
This weeks video shows the work coming from the University of Ulster. At first, those may look like very simple games – and they are, for a very good reason. Intended to aid in upper-limb stroke rehabilitation, these let patients practice some of the finer movements such as reach, grasp, manipulation and release of objects. You can read more about it here.
Have a grand week!
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Games Alfresco 
Someone needs to take a video of the Splinter Cell layar game in Amsterdam. That sounds wicked cool. :)
” The objective is to introduce and promote the launch of the latest release of Spinter Cell for Xbox.”
In a few years it will be regular games used to promote the main, AR version :P