The Augmented Reality Blog » contextual http://www.augmentedrealityblog.eu Augmenting reality Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:51:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Sixth Sense: Real Augmented Reality http://www.augmentedrealityblog.eu/2009/10/08/sixth-sense-real-augmented-reality/ http://www.augmentedrealityblog.eu/2009/10/08/sixth-sense-real-augmented-reality/#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:07:20 +0000 patrice http://www.augmentedrealityblog.eu/?p=193 Patti Maes from MIT showcases her ongoing research, veeeery promising indeed:

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looking at the many AR applications today we can partition them into three major categories:

  • Contextual: the user’s context (location, view direction, preferences, time) is used to augment reality
  • Informational: information is added to products
  • Interactive: the user is able to interact with the objects in the augmented reality space (other than just changing their positions by moving a marker).
The three major AR categories

The three major AR categories

Some examples:

App Contextual Informational Interactive
Lego box opener - + -
Wikitude + + -
Terminator - + -
Gum5 Music Mixer - - +
Layar + + -
Sony’s EyePet - - +
Living AR - + -
Excell AR - + +
Medical AR - + -
BMW repair assistant + + +
Tube finder + + -

Note that interaction (for instance in the BMW repair assistent’s case) can also be by means of voice commands, or by operating a phone’s touchscreen. Of course the coolest interaction is by means of gesture recognition as in SONY’s EyePet’s case.

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