Augmented Reality’s First Educational Applications

Augmented reality: an early 2010 survey
Bryan Alexander
National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education

Plan for the day
What is it?
History and state of the art
Why do this?
Current examples
AR on campus
Current examples
Trends and possibles for 2010-2011

What is AR?
Not VR
HUDs
J. Spohrer, WorldBoard “Information in places” (IBM Systems Journal, 1999)
Language grapples:
Magic window
Mixed reality
Reading the environment
Annotate the world
Laminating the physical world
a “looking glass” into an invisible world

Components
Hardware
Mobile device (e.g., phone)
Camera
Display screen (glasses, phone)
Network infrastructure
Location awareness (GPS)
Attitude awareness (accelerometer)
Compass
Software
Local apps
Web services
Content server

Light AR
Museum tours
GPS navigators (Garmin)
Location services (Yelp)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joc67/774419510/
Photo from Jimmy Joe

Marker-based AR
Living antecedent: bar codes
QR
Microsoft Tag

Marker-based AR
Another antecedent: CueCat
Google Googles

Deeper AR
Superimpose digital data onto local imagery
Glasses or phone

Why use it?
Add information to a place
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/augmented-reality-hits-wimbledon-tennis-championship
(Wimbledon example)

Rotterdam Market Hall http://layar.com/layar-30-launched-5-cases-to-show-the-power-of-the-platform/
Visualization

Mondrian;
http://layar.com/layar-30-launched-5-cases-to-show-the-power-of-the-platform/
Creative arts

Wikitude
User geotagging
http://wikitude.me/
“World Browser”

.edu examples: iTacitus
European Commission research project
Palazzo Diana,
Florence
http://www.itacitus.org/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090812104219.htm

Campus uses
“’RealtàAumentata’… a thesis project by a student at the Valle Giulia Faculty of Architecture in Italy.” (HR 2010)
http://vimeo.com/2341387

Campus uses
“Gratz University of Technology,
Austria, has developed campus and museum
tours using augmented reality. Looking through
the camera on a mobile phone while walking
the campus, students see tagged classrooms
inside the buildings. At the museum, a virtual
tour guide accompanies users through the halls.” (HR 2010)

Campus uses
Campus life through AR:
Georgia Tech
http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/lab/2009/10/

Campus uses
“The ARIS engine allows game designers to place virtual items, characters and pages in physical space using the iPhone’s GPS or a little barcode that can be placed on a wall or near an object. By giving the players a story and a number of quests, games can be built that involve a mix of physical and virtual activities.”
(U Wisconsin, http://arisgames.org/)

AR projects
From the liberal arts world:
Dickinson in Japan, http://blogs.dickinson.edu/japan2010/
Stetson campus app, https://www.stetson.edu/secure/apps/wordpress/?p=4981

Emergent trends and possibles
TAT face recognition

Hardware beyond the mobile phone
Goggles
Contact lenses (ex: http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/0 (BabakParviz, IEEE Spectrum)

AR skies
Google Skymaps (http://www.google.com/sky/skymap/)
Bing sky (TED)
http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html

“Games using marker technology often include a flat game board or map which becomes a 3D setting when viewed with a mobile device or a webcam. This kind of game could easily be applied to a range of disciplines, including archaeology, history, anthropology, or geography, to name a few…” (HR 2010)

“…Another approach to AR gaming allows players or game masters to create virtual people and objects, tying them to a specific location in the real world.
Players interact with these constructs, which appear when the player approaches a linked location in the real world.” (HR 2010)
(Mad City Mystery,
http://tinyurl.com/ybdsfzp)

Practical challenges
Huge amounts of data crunching
Interface awkwardness
Location-based advertising
Copyright and other IP
Social media content contribution

“[L]et’s get cynical about this technology and it’s trajectory. This “true glimpse” of history won’t sell well, compared to Disneyfied “untrue glimpses.” Wherever there is “Intelligent Tourism,” brutal, vulgar and stupid tourism follows fast on its heels!...”
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/08/augmented-reality-and-atemporality/ Bruce Sterling, 2009

Emergent trends and possible
“Soon we’ll have some themepark Creationist Augmented Reality, where you can visit the Grand Canyon and see pre-Noachian people pan-frying trilobites and riding dinosaurs.)))”
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/08/augmented-reality-and-atemporality/ Bruce Sterling, 2009

More resources
ELI, 7 Things You Need to Know About Augmented Reality, http://educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7007.pdf
Eric Klopfer, Augmented Learning (MIT, 2008)
J.D. Spohrer, “Information in Places” (1999)
Adam Greenfeld, Everyware(New Riders, 2006)
http://delicious.com/tag/hz10+augmentedreality

Companies to watch
Layar
Metaiohttp://www.metaio.com/
Microsoft (Tag: http://www.microsoft.com/tag/)
Ogmento
Wikitude
ARSights (http://www.arsights.com/)
Also IBM, Google

Even more resources
NITLE blog, Techne
http://blogs.nitle.org
Horizon Report
http://www.nmc.org/horizon
Bryan’s research Twitter
http://twitter.com/bryanalexander

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