Nowadays, the industrial sector and specially manufacturing companies, have a huge challenge trying to train the workforce while maintaining up to date with the technology, machinery and manufacturing techniques involved in the production process. For that reason this sector claims for effective, in time and quality, training methodologies that do not interrupt or interfere with the continuous ...

Augmented reality solution development for mobile devices is a rather young domain. There are very few guidelines and practically no patterns or mature frameworks for application developers. In this paper we present an evolution of an augmented reality guide for museums, we demonstrate possible solutions for major problems that were encountered. We discuss possible uses of augmented reality for...

Due to several industrial requirements we were exploring the use of projective displays as an alternative to Augmented Reality user interfaces based on HMDs. This resulted in the development of an Augmented Reality Laser Projector. In this demo we show the laser projector in combination with an easy to use and easy to adapt markerless tracking system. Almost any pseudo planar object can be taug...

Augmented reality have undergone considerable improvement in past years. Many special techniques and hardware devices were developed, but the crucial breakthrough came with the spread of intelligent mobile phones. This enabled mass spread of augmented reality applications. However mobile devices have limited hardware capabilities, which narrows down the methods usable for scene analysis. In thi...

This paper describes the design of an augmented reality authoring system for end-users (ARAS-EU), focusing interaction, collaboration and authoring in augmented reality applications, showing the strategies adopted in each case. Interaction was emphasized in all levels of the system, resulting in the presentation of taxonomy of selection, manipulation and release techniques applied to augmented ...