ISMAR 2010 is just a couple of days away, and in the meantime, here’s this week’s linkfest:
- Google Goggles is finally available for the iPhone. To be frank, I haven’t tried it yet (what kind of AR reporter am I), and I’m rooting for the underdogs.
- LightSpace from Microsoft Research – augmenting a room with projectors and 3d cameras. As I’ve said earlier, it’s amazing how a technology that would have looked like magic just four years ago, is quite banal these days.
- Layar awarded Most Disruptive Innovator at Deloitte Fast50.
- Zugara’s Jack Benoff ponders whether mobile AR is not just sexy, but also practical.
- Now Total Immersion are having a one day AR event. It’s November the 9th in LA. Sadly, it’s an invitations only event. They should learn something from their beer loving competitors from Germany.
- A British company wants to augment your curriculum vitae. Cheesy or acceptable?
Today’s video is coming to us straight from ISMAR 2010. It’s a presentation of the results achieved in the paper “Build Your World and Play In It: Interacting with Surface Particles on Complex Objects” by Brett Jones and other researchers from the University of Illinois. The paper presents a way to map virtual content on 3d physical constructions and “play” with them. For more details check out Jones’ website. I think that Angry Birds would be prefect on such a platform:
Have a great week, and the lucky of you who get to be in ISMAR, take some videos, please!
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Games Alfresco 
Thanks for the post, Rouli. Total Immersion’s ‘AR Immersion 2010’ event on November 9th is a full day, AR-intensive conference. Given capacity restrictions, the event is invite-only. Those who would like to attend but who aren’t on the invite list can contact Marie Geffroy (marie.geffroy@t-immersion.com) to request a conference pass. Check out our site (http://ar-immersion.t-immersion.com/) for more details as we post them. Unlike the “beer loving competitors in Germany” (who charged an admission fee of nearly $300 per pass) TI’s event is free! :) By the way, we too love beer, and we’ll have beer–and of course wine and cheese–at the event.
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