The kitchen is a complex and dangerous multi-user work environment that can benefit from augmented reality techniques to help people cook more safely, easily and efficiently. We present Counter Intelligence, a conventional kitchen augmented with the projection of information onto its objects and surfaces to orient users, coordinate between multiple tasks and increase confidence in the system. F...

This paper covers the whole process of developing an Augmented Reality Stereoscopig Render Engine for the Oculus Rift. To capture the real world in form of a camera stream, two cameras with fish-eye lenses had to be installed on the Oculus Rift DK1 hardware. The idea was inspired by Steptoe [1]. After the introduction, a theoretical part covers all the most neccessary elements to achieve an AR ...

The unstoppable evolution in diversity and capacity of information and communication technologies at our disposal, in particular the growing features of collection and data storage, communication facilities and associated action, which can be integrated in mobile and collaborative solutions, created a window of opportunity to innovate and create decision support systems that allow us to put on ...

While mobile Augmented Reality (AR) browsers have become one of the major commercial AR application, real-world usage behaviour with this technology is still a widely unexplored area. We report on our findings from an online survey that we conducted on the topic and an analysis of mobile distribution platforms for popular Augmented Reality browsers. We found that while the usage of Augmented Re...

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...

One potential breakthrough application of real-time mobile device sensing data is the ability to effect changes in the social systems in real time. This data can come from devices that we carry with us anyway: our cell phones, our name tags, and other computing devices. As we have shown in previous work, by using this data in offline analysis we can use this information to not only identify soc...

Augmented Reality (AR) is a new technology that involves the overlay of computer graphics on the real world. It is a live view of a physical, real world whose elements are augmented by computer generated sensory input i.e. sound, video, graphics or GPS data. AR is within a more general context termed Mixed Reality (MR) that refers to a multi-axis range of areas that covers Virtual Reality (VR),...

To create an effective illusion of virtual objects coexisting with the real world, see-through HMD-based Augmented Reality techniques supplement the user's view with images of virtual objects. We introduce here a new paradigm, Spatially Augmented Reality (SAR), where virtual objects are rendered directly within or on the user's physical space. A key benefit of SAR is that the user does not need...

Augmented Reality (AR) was first demonstrated in the 1960s, but only recently have technologies emerged that can be used to easily deploy AR applications to many users. Camera-equipped cell phones with significant processing power and graphics abilities provide an inexpensive and versatile platform for AR applications, while the social networking technology of Web 2.0 provides a largescale infr...

This chapter is a study on the visualization techniques of geographic information in an augmented reality environment, focusing on its user interface. Augmented reality is a technology that superimposes information over a real scene, enhancing the real world with the scene-linked information. The information is overlaid onto the real scene, dynamically based on the user’s viewpoint. When mixed ...