Section: Application Domains

Mobile and Augmented Reality Applications

The term Augmented Environments refers collectively to ubiquitous computing, context-aware computing, and intelligent environments. The goal of our research on these environments is to introduce personal Augmented Reality (AR) devices, taking advantage of their embedded sensors. These environments offer the possibility of using ubiquitous computation, communication, and sensing to enable the presentation of context-sensitive information and services to the user. AR applications often rely on 3D content and employ specialized hardware and computer vision techniques for both tracking and scene reconstruction and exploration. Our approach tries to seek a balance between these traditional AR contexts and what has come to be known as mobile AR browsing, based for instance on attitude estimation.