Confronting an augmented reality

Augmented Reality: An Overview

We define Augmented Reality (AR) as a real-time direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment that has been enhanced/augmented by adding virtual computer-generated information to it [1]. AR is both interactive and registered in 3D as well as combines real and virtual objects. Milgram’s Reality-Virtuality Continuum is defined by Paul Milgram and Fumio Kishino as a continuum that s...

An Introduction to Augmented Reality

Classification Space for Augmented Surgery, an Augmented Reality Case Study

One of the recent design goals in Human Computer Interaction has been to extend the sensorymotor capabilities of computer systems to combine the real and the virtual in order to assist the user in his environment. Such systems are called Augmented Reality (AR). Although AR systems are becoming more prevalent we still do not have a clear understanding of this interaction paradigm. In this paper ...

Augmented Reality

B. Historical Development The idea to such a technology was already born in the 1960s, when first head-mounted displays (HMD) were built by the visionary Ivan Sutherland [1]. The original application of such displays was tele-presence – the display would show imagery, captured by remote servo-controlled IR cameras, which were moved according to the user’s head motion. This allowed the user to c...

Augmented Reality

One Day BMVA Technical Meeting in association with the UKVRSIG and IEE/E4 at British Institute of Radiology, London, UK on 3rd May 2000 Augmented reality is the process of augmenting the users view of a world with synthetic models or information. This could be anything from the written annotation of a scene to superimposed 3D graphical models. The applications of Augmented Reality are in wearab...