Presentation for #aree2012

2. What will be covered
• What is Augmented Reality?
• Different approaches to AR (platform agnostic)
• How AR is being used today
• Evolution of Personal AI
• Demo
• The Future

3. What is Augmented Reality?
“A live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment
whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input
such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data.”
- Wikipedia

4. What is Augmented Reality?
“A view of the world through a digital “lens”, which allows the scene to
be changed or appear differently than the real-world environment.”
- Jared Bienz

5. Issues
• Connectivity
• Ownership
• User interface

6. „When cut off from the network, or separated from our devices, we are
forced to revert to behaviours that are dictated only by our surroundings,
which is at best frustrating, and at worse debilitating.‟
Keiichi Matsuda A Domesti/City, The Dislocated home in augmented
space

7. AR Approaches

8. Vision-Based (Games & Apps)
+No sensors required (only access to camera feed)
+Existing libraries for tracking tags (code is fairly simple)
-Tied to specially printed tags (in range, good angle) 3DS' Wonderful Augmented Reality Games
-CPU intensive
Kogan concept app
http://youtu.be/yk3rSX-vOVw
http://youtu.be/zHpd_f_68oA

9. Sensor-Based (Games & Apps)
+Requires no printed tags
+Not nearly as CPU intensive Live Butterflies Viewer / Game
-Code is more complex (due to dealing with sensors)
-Most current examples are tied to a fixed location
-Requires sensors
PhotoSynth for Windows Phone & iPhone
http://youtu.be/gO43NOXgzyE
http://photosynth.net/

10. Sensor-Based AR
Virtual World + Camera and Sensors = Augmented World
SLAR Toolkit - slartoolkit.codeplex.com

11. Geo Augmented Reality
TexMex
TexMex
Automatically Augmented
Real World Object
+
Your Location and
+ Generated
= World
Location Direction (sensors)
Virtual World
Geo AR Toolkit - gart.codeplex.com

14. http://bit.ly/Rcnz3z

15. Microsoft PixelSense
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/pixelsense/default.aspx

16. Physical Interaction Based (Apps)
http://youtu.be/jod6rfV7tBs

17. „We believe that technology has huge potential to transform the ways
in which blind and partially sighted people get out and about. That is
why we've worked with Microsoft to develop a concept of how things
might look soon, if we all pull together to make our vision a reality.‟
To get involved contact:
letsmakeithappen@guidedogs.org.uk

18. http://youtu.be/ZXKT8ysNLBU
The full 'Family Day Out Video is from the microsite at:
http://www.guidedogs.org.uk/inspiring-future-technologies

19. Evolution of personal AI
Brand lifestyle
Evolution of guidance
decision engines
Opt-in alternative
to invasive on-line
tracking
Multiple AI
accessible from
everywhere

20. Demo

22. „More cultural heritage stored in digital form +
More accessible to more people +
People better equipped with more tools to add creatively to the
collection
= Exponential growth in mass cultural expression
= Cloud Culture ‘
Charles Lead- beater “Cloud Cul- ture: The Promise and the Threat,” (Edge: 2010),
http://bit.ly/RLSqGh

23. http://www.youtube.com/user/officevideos