Applications of Multi-touch Augmented Reality System in Education and Presentation of Virtual Heritage

Applications of augmented reality have a great immersion potential for education, edutainment or cultural heritage presentations. The combination of intuitive and playful interaction with multi-faceted presentation options proved to be an effective mixture that attracts viewers to educational or cultural content. We introduce a multi-touch augmented reality system (MARS) using two display units for showing two contexts of the same object(s). One of the displays serves as primary context and hosts a multi-touch surface for user input. The second display shows a camera feed of user interacting with the primary context and replaces the primary context in real-time by the secondary context and adds the augmented reality presentation of the object(s). © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the programme committee of the 2013 International Conference on Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education.