The document discusses the history and current state of augmented reality (AR) technology. It outlines how AR has progressed from early experiments in the 1960s-1980s to commercial applications today in areas like gaming, medical, and industry. Important research directions are focused on developing improved tracking, displays, interaction techniques, and enhancing the user experience. The future of AR is predicted to include always-on, unobtrusive displays like contact lenses and using AR to annotate and filter information in the user's environment.

1. The Reality of Augmented Reality Mark Billinghurst [email_address] The HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury December 2011

3. Virtual Reality Was COOL!

6. Cheap HMDs

8. Gartner Hype Cycle

9. 1990-95 1995-2000

14. > $3-5 Billion

16. What’s Real About Augmented Reality?

20. Google Searches for AR 2009 Key crossover point – More people interested in AR than VR

23. AR Technology Today

24. 1977 – Star Wars

26. HMD, HMD, HMD...

27. Tracking, Tracking, Tracking Contours Feature Points Surfaces

28. 1999 - HIT Lab US Shared Space

31. Virtual Viewpoint Generation

32. 3D Live System

33. 2008 - CNN

36. 2008: Location Aware Phones Nokia Navigator Motorola Droid

41. IronMan2

45. Research Directions

47. AR User Experience

52. Contact Lens Prototype

54. Wikitude – www.mobilizy.com Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah

55. Information Filtering

63. ubiHome @ GIST  ubiHome What/When/How Where/When Media services Who/What/ When/How ubiKey Couch Sensor PDA Tag-it Door Sensor ubiTrack When/How When/How Who/What/When/How Light service MR window

65. Conclusions