Augmented Reality - Alistair Hart
- 1. AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) WHAT IS IT & WHY IS IT AWESOME? Alistair Hart, Mangoesmapping Fungis workshop 16.11.12
- 2. Augmented Reality (AR) • What is it – types of AR • Examples, historic and current • Who uses AR? • AR for smartphones • The future for AR • Privacy Issues • AR app demos
- 3. Marker-based AR • Marker-based AR uses marker/s or an image of some kind that an AR application can be programmed to identify.
- 4. Marker-based AR credit: Lynn Barry, Pranav Mistry, MIT Media Lab
- 5. Marker-based AR • The SixthSense augmented reality system lets you project a phone pad onto your hand and phone a friend -- without removing the phone from your pocket. • Can you see the markers?
- 7. Markerless AR? • Overlaying artificial information about the environment and its objects on images of the real world – location based… • The location-based Augmented Reality view provides a direct view of reality "enhanced" with additional, computer-generated content, as opposed to a conventional map, which provides an abstract view from above.
- 8. Early Example - 1984 credit: Hollywood.com
- 9. Current example - BMW
- 11. Markerless AR? • AR can use the following device features: – GPS – Inclinometer – Gyroscope – Solid state compass – Digital camera/optical sensor – Digital display/data projector – Wireless sensors – RFID tags • AR also needs access to data to augment reality!
- 12. Who uses AR • Tourists • Soldiers • Commuters • Consumers (Groceries to Real Estate) • Jobseekers • Pilots • Restaurant goers • The incontinent…
- 13. • Today’s focus is on AR apps for Smartphones…
- 14. Smartphone AR
- 15. Layar
- 17. Wikitude
- 18. Future of AR • Apps to show homeowners what different paint colours look like in a room • Grocery shopping apps: – user reviews – health information – ingredient explanations – competing products
- 19. Future of AR • Current industry estimates are that AR market segment will reach $3 billion p.a. by 2016, with profound impacts on education, training and business • Growth rate of AR market segment reflects growth in early days of spatial industry
- 20. Privacy Risks? • AR connecting with social media accounts (eg. myspace, facebook) • Point your phone at someone and gain information about him/her • Child safety?? • No indications technology heading this way anytime soon
- 21. Privacy Risks? • AR connecting with social media accounts (eg. myspace, facebook) • Point your phone at someone and gain information about him/her • Child safety?? • No indications technology heading this way anytime soon credit: Hollywood.com
- 22. App demos if time