Hello there, welcome back to another round of geek talk.
Today, I will be focusing more on the technological origins, interesting advancements of Gestural Interfaces and Augmented Reality in areas such as business, biometrics and also its’ recent advancements.
While researching on this blog, I came across an article that touched up on augmented reality, and as we had previously discussed Augmented Reality interaction techniques need to be as intuitive as possible so that the users can find it acceptable. The authors of the article; Gesture Based Direct Manipulation in Augmented Reality went into detail about augmented reality being customized to cater for different application needs. Asking around, Augmented Reality and Virtual reality tend to clash and leave people confused. Regardless of their similarities, they are actually quite different. Augmented Reality (AR) interfaces are virtual objects that are overlaid on top of a video of the real world. Whereas, virtual reality like virtual words are simulated environments that are not dependent on reality.
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Here are some cool examples of Augmented Reality.
In an article by Tom Simonite titled Augmented Reality Meets Gesture Recognition, the author expressed “augmented reality and the layering involved which comprises of a computer-generated imagery on top of a view of the real world as seen through the camera of a smart phone or tablet computer”. This enables someone looking out at a city through a device can show information on the display.
The author goes a step further by talking about a new augmented reality technology, called Aurasma . Aurasma, which by definition is “a radical piece of technology that represents the future of how we use our mobile devices by bringing the physical and virtual worlds together for the first time.” This technology recognizes the user's hand gestures. This means using the application to interact with the virtual content. Aurasma is able to track and respond to gestures, which make virtual objects interactive.
Another company Blippar, is interested in merging augmented reality with m-commerce. Blippar is actually the first image-recognition phone application that helps to bring newspapers, magazines and posters to life, with exciting augmented reality experiences and instantaneous content. The company just announced the launch of a new service, called ‘Blipp to Buy’, which would allow media owners to use its image recognition platform. Their customers will be able to can use the free Blippar application to buy products in press advertisements and also print publications. The Company believes that the ‘Blipp to Buy’ will be a new way for media and even name brands to increase their revenue on the potential of mobile commerce augmented reality technology.
When it comes to mobile augmented reality platform, a company named Layar is said to be the “world’s largest with more than 10M installs, 9,000 developers and 2,500 layers”. The application is known for being able to display information overlay on top of your camera, which is done by an overlay of your route directly on top of what is coming through your Android/IOS camera. I know this can be very useful to be instead of a regular GPS will sometimes tend to lead you to a closed off construction route or even in a worse case scenario to a completely nonexistent destination. According to their website information; Layar brings impactful augmented reality experiences into people’s everyday lives. To find out more about this company, please don’t hesitate to check out their site here.
Augmented reality unknown to me as well has been in the defense industry for about 20 years. The pilots used head mounted display to provide data about the plane. The sports industries also use this technology: for American football, the first down line during the game does not exist on the grass, with the help of AR it helps to properly examine more carefully what happened or what is going to happen in other situations.
Earlier this year in Las Vegas, Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in recent light of gestural interfaces and augmented reality advancements, showcased Mercedes, which had created an interactive sculpture that features technology to create a vision for a safer driving experience. The sculpture created was called Dynamic & Intuitive Control Experience (DICE). Dice features includes; displays that can be controlled without touch and they are fed by cloud-based computing communication.
To discuss Augmented Reality in biometrics, last year in November, John Sutter wrote an article on what the researchers at the University of Washington and Finland's Aalto University have been developing. The article describes the development to be a prototype of a contact lens that would project digital images onto the retinas of whoever would be wearing it. The contacts will be able to receive data from other resources and provide real-time information. Also, on the 22nd of February, CNN reported that Google is developing a set of glasses that will display digital information on top of the real world. The glasses will include a small screen that will sit a few inches from someone’s eye. The glasses’ camera will be able to monitor the world in real time and overlay information to the consumer about locations, buildings and the relative surroundings. If you’d like to read more on this visit the article here..
Augmented Reality has increasingly found its way to be included into our everyday lives. Its uses vary from different Business needs to Advertising needs and also everyone’s favorite; Games.
Hope you enjoyed the today’s blog; join me next time as I go into augmented surrealistic experiences, more examples and also how you can create your very own augmented reality!
Thank You! J
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