Augmenting Reality with the Kinect Rob Miles, University of Hull – Robmiles.com The Kinect includes two cameras, an infrared sensor and four microphones The further you are from the sensor, the further apart the infrared dots appear to the Kinect. When you are about 80cm away it has very good depth perception. However, objects such […]
Luke Robert Mason, Director of Virtual Futures We can now use devices to deposit versions of ourselves into an online environment. Vision is proving to be a limited way to augment our perception. AR can pollute our visual senses. Neil Harbison is a colour-blind artist. He wears a prosthesis that allows him to hear colour. […]
Lester Maddan, Augmented Planet http://www.augmentedplanet.com/ AR is a collection of technologies that can be used together in certain ways to produce what we call augmented reality. Virtual reality was about entering a computer-generated world, isolated from physical reality. AR is about bridging that gap. AR provides an immersive experience. You have a phone in your […]
Lee Stott, Microsoft @lee_stott AR is a method of looking at the world through a different lens. Several current issues: connectivity, need for Internet and app store, device ownership, user interfaces. Either you build new interfaces for every devices, and people keep buying new devices, or you go for the lowest common denominator. Commercial AR: […]
Matthew Ramirez, University of Manchester Prezi: http://prezi.com/k4rkzzlqgvkt/augmented-reality-in-education-event-2012/ Blog: http://teamscarlet.wordpress.com/ Wiki: scarlet.mimas.ac.uk/mediawiki – this contains lots of useful info and links Project scarlet uses computer graphics to add a layer of information to the real world. As part of their course, students need to consult books within controlled conditions within library study rooms. In these rooms, […]
City University, London, 21 0ctober 2012 – #AREE2012 http://blogs.city.ac.uk/care/ar-event/ http://blogs.city.ac.uk/care/2012/11/23/ar-in-education-event/ Videos http://blogs.city.ac.uk/care/?p=238 Augmented reality in education http://blogs.city.ac.uk/care/ cARe, Creating Augmented Reality for Education Farzana Latif, City University Video overview of project http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMWdFadqjg0 Describes a public health walk around east London. When students find a marker, they can access resources about the history of the area, […]