Augmented Reality Research

Below is some research I've done on Augmented Reality technology of the present and ideas of the future, I plan to use this as the basis of my idea.

Layar

Layar is a free application which people can download for their smart phones, it shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of the mobile phone.

Layar is used by holding the phone in front of you like a camera, information is then displayed on top of the camera display view.

For all points of interest which are displayed on the screen, information is shown at the bottom of the screen.

I like the idea of using having digital information over a real life camera view and feel that this could be something I bring into my own work.

Another app that does a similar job is Twittaround the application uses a similar technique to Layar but as you turn the camera it is possible to see peoples tweets from outside on the side of their houses, the video below shows how it works.


There are a couple of possible future apps that really caught my eye the first of which was a made up Medical Agmented Reality application which could be warn on the Doctors head to see where certain body parts are, I feel such an application would be excellent for teaching and would like to develop an application like this for this project possibly mixing it with the type of application Layar is, displaying information on a display about different body parts or operations.



The second possible technology is one shown by Chris Tough in our previous lecture, it shows a future which people wear glasses, like in the Wizard of Oz example shown by Vlad.
The glasses project advertisements and more interestingly instructions on how to do things like cooking and in this example make a cup of tea. This instructional augmented reality is something I am going to look into including in my own work.