Like sands through the hourglass, so are the links of this week:
- Synchronize your markers – the second Augmented Reality Event to take place in May. Maybe this time my flight won’t be canceled by Delta at the very last minute.
- Google Goggles enters the print ads recognition space (and now also solves Sudokus). There are a couple of very cool European companies that should be worried right now.
- Joe Ludwig on 7 requirements for an AR positioning system, and don’t miss my lengthy comment (unless you want to get it as a whole blog post :)).
- Augmented reality is the ‘trend for the future’ at adult entertainment exhibition(via @AugmentedManc)
- Play golf with an augmented caddy (you still need to carry the cart yourself).
Augmented reality t-shirts are cool. Star Wars is cool (as determined by a poll of 500 AR fands). Thus, augmented reality t-shirts, featuring Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker fighting each other must be the epitome of coolness. I don’t have a clue who made those or where can you get them, but you may enjoy the video:
have a great week!
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Games Alfresco 
“That’s why it’s necessary for the cellphone itself to do all the real-time computations locally, and therefore, the local image database would have to be streamed to the cellphone rather than the other way around.”
This is more or less how I see it too;
a)Use gps or other means for a client to know very roughly where it is.
b) Cache as much infrastructure image data as is responsible about the surrounding area.(I dont think gigabytes is out the question given how things progress)
c) Use the cache to position yourself accurately and with total privacy. Even offline as long as you stay within your cache boundary!
It’s done with this :