Augmented realty as virtual design interface

ABSTRACT

Augmented Reality (AR) increasing occupies an important place in manufacturing, transportation, branding, tourism, education, and many other areas of life. It finds its applications in a diverse range of disciplines from remote collaboration and navigation to interactive print and data visualization. Unlike virtual reality (VR) fully immersed in non-physical datascapes and often self-referential, AR closely correlates the virtual and the physical realities and makes them highly interconnected and interdependent through location awareness, enhanced data overlays, and user-focused content. As such, it provides a unique opportunity to seamlessly extend physical environments with virtual interfaces.

Index Terms

• Computing methodologies

  • Computer graphics

    • Graphics systems and interfaces

      • Mixed / augmented reality