This linkfest has nothing to do with Justin Bieber, and everything to do with augmented reality news bites from the last week. I’m just checking if the mere inclusion of Mr. Bieber in the title will generate more hits.
- Christopher Mitchell hacked together a Vuzix VR920 HUD and eeePC to create a basic facial recognition AR device for his master thesis.
- Augmented Planet posted their monthly report on AR application for the iPhone.
- I’m terribly late on this, but apparently on ARE 2010, Georgia Tech previewed their open source and open standards Kamra Mobile AR Browser. Have to thank Chris Grayson for bringing it to my attention.
- Twenty five of Lonely Planet’s travel guides get a dose of augmented reality, powered by Wikitude.
- Samsung’s Bada mobile OS seems to be the hip place for AR games development. This time it’s our pals at int13 with their release of ARDefender game.
- Metaio is holding a one day long conference called insideAR. I usually don’t promote such events, but they got me when they bundled it with Oktoberfest. Augmented reality and Beer, a match made in heaven?
This week’s video is a promotion video for Sekai Camera. Tonchidot, the company behind this veteran AR browser recently got a $5M from Japan’s telecom giant KDDI (though some claim that KDDI actually bought Tonchidot). And if that’s not enough, Tonchidot announced the creation of social AR game. The future looks bright for those guys:
Have a great (and cool) week!
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Games Alfresco 
Hi Rouli.
will you be there to check out the winning combination of AR and beer at metaio? Would love to meet up for a chat and a Stein then! :-)
Toby.
@Toby not likely :(
If only I knew about it a little bit earlier I would have planned a week long trip to Germany.
AR fish and virtual pets…clearly Dennou Coil inspired there :)
justin bierbe
es el amigo mas q yo quiero