Day4it and ar presentation

Augmented Reality on Android Tobias Domhan Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Germany 1 02.07.2010

Agenda ● Introduction to Android ● Augmented Reality ● Definition ● Applications ● 2D AR ● AndAR – Android Augmented Reality ● Description ● Architecture ● AndAR Model Viewer 2 ● Live demo

Introduction to Android ● Operating system for mobile devices ● Developed by Google and partners ● Available since: end of October 2008 ● Mostly Open Source Software ● Based on the Linux kernel ● Java VM ● Not fully/officially Java SE compatibly ● Central market to deploy applications ● Over 60 smartphones, 100,000 untis sold daily 3

Augmented Reality + + 4

Augmented Reality - Definition ● Most common definitions: ● Definition by Ronald Azuma(1995): 1. Combines real and virtual 2. Interactive in real time 3. Registered in 3-D ● Milgram's reality-virtuality continuum: 5

Applications of AR 6

2D Augmented Reality ● Wikitude ● Layar ● Extenable app ● Mixare ● Open Source (2D) AR Engine ● GPS based ● Display geo-encoded information 7

AndAR ● (3D) Augmented Reality Framework for Android ● Student research project at the DHBW ● Supervised by Prof. Dr. R. Messer ● Supported by MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg ● Released as Open Source Software (GPL) ● Based on the ARToolkit library ● Compatibility: ● Android 1.5 through 2.2 8

AndAR ● Cares for: ● Image acquisition ● Marker detection ● Overlaying the camera with 3D graphics ● Computational intensive work done in native Code ● However offers a pure Java, object oriented API ● Foundation for Android AR applications 9

AndAR Architecture 10

AndAR Model Viewer 11

AndAR Model Viewer 12

Thank you for your attention! Any Questions? ● Website: http://code.google.com/p/andar/ ● Twitter: @tdomhan ● E-Mail: tdomhan@gmail.com ● Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/AndAR/119553454726710 ● This presentation: 13 http://tinyurl.com/day4it-andar

Live demo ● Anyone owning an Android phone? ● Search for “AndAR” in the market, or use this QR code 14

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