Games Alfresco

If you missed it, we’ve got it, in this week’s linkfest:

• Users not waking up to augmented reality mobile apps (via @jack_benott). Here’s an interesting quote: Augmented reality “needs to move away from the “pull” model of using the camera to pull AR data to a “push” model where consumers can receive AR data in a seamless fashion”. This theoretically will happen with the introduction of head up displays, but maybe we can’t wait till then …
• The augmented reality pitch that made Justin Timberlake invest in stealth startup Dekko (via @GaryPHayes). I really hope there’s something more to it than this. I do love their chosen company name, though.
• I think Layar already did it, but 110 Stories is a Kickstarter project aiming to create an AR (and later physical) memorial the World Trade Center towers. 
• Daqri’s CEO Brain Mullins gives a keynote talk on San Diego’s ARDevCamp titled “The state of augmented reality“. I may or may not link to it just because I got quoted (but thanks!). 
• “Inch High Stunt Guy” is not just a game, it also beautifully shows the power of Qualcomm’s AR SDK.
• Smokers can get an augmented reality look at their dirty lungs (again via @GaryPHayes).
• And not exactly in AR this week: 16 creative QR codes, projection mapping on a face, Microsoft pays users to create a 3d reconstruction database.

This week’s video comes from Toyota Motor Europe and the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, which re-imagined a car’s window for an excibition, and named it “Window to the World”. The result is very attractive, as is evident by the half a million views this video got in the past last week. You probably have already seen it, but if not, here’s a good place to read more about it.

Have a splendid week!

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