Augmented reality (AR) enhances the real world by overlaying virtual objects. AR allows users to see the real world with virtual objects superimposed on top. AR supplements reality rather than replacing it. Some key applications of AR include using it to provide military and medical personnel with helpful overlays of information, enhancing education through 3D overlays, and using it for product displays and games. Popular AR mobile apps include Star Walk for identifying stars, Google Sky Map, and games like Piclings that incorporate the real world camera view.

1. Seminar
On
Latest Technology
Presented By:
Aarti Hariramani
09ECACS001

3. What is it?
• Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a
live direct or indirect view of a physical
real-world environment whose
elements are merged with (or
augmented by) virtual computer-
generated imagery - creating a mixed
reality.

4. Virtual reality

5. Augmented Reality (AR) is a variation of VE/VR.
• VR technologies completely immerse a user inside a
synthetic environment. While immersed, the user
cannot see the real world around him.
• In contrast, AR allows the user to see the real world,
with virtual objects superimposed upon or
composited with the real world.
AR supplements reality, rather than completely
replacing it. It creates the illusion that the virtual and
real objects coexisted in the same space.
AR can be thought of as the "middle ground“ between VE
(completely synthetic) and telepresence (completely real)

6. Motivation

7. • AR enhances a user’s perception of interaction with the real world.
• The virtual objects display information that the user cannot directly
detect with his own senses.
• The information conveyed by the virtual objects helps a user perform
real-world tasks.
• AR is a specific example of what is known as Intelligence Amplification
(IA): using the computer as a tool to make a task easier for a human to
perform.

8. Devices
Display

9. • There are essentially 3 different kinds of displays of augmented
reality:
• The head mounted display (HMD) is worn on the head or
attached to a helmet. This display can resemble goggles or
glasses. In some instances, there is a screen that covers a single
eye.
• The handheld device is a portable computer or mobile
smartphone such as the iPhone.
• Spatial display makes use of projected graphical displays onto
fixed surfaces.

10. The head mounted display
(HMD) is worn on the head or
attached to a helmet. This
display can resemble goggles or
glasses. In some instances, there
is a screen that covers a single
eye
The head
mounted
display

11. The handheld device is a
portable computer or
mobile smartphone such
as the iPhone.
The handheld device

12. Spatial
display
Spatial display makes
use of projected
graphical displays
onto fixed surfaces.

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14. The military, particularly the Office of Naval Research and Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA, are some of the
original pioneers of augmented reality systems. One of the main uses
of augmented reality systems to the military is providing field soldiers
crucial information about their surroundings as well as friendly
troops and enemy movements in their particular area.
Military

15. Medical
One of the interesting uses for AR in the medical field involves live interactive
imaging for assisting physicians, medical students and children. Minimally
invasive surgery (MIS) includes procedures where a camera is inserted into the
patient's body to help the doctor visualize the procedures he or she is conducting

16. This form of surgery is aided with the use of AR imagery
of a brain superimposed onto the patient's head, giving
the doctor a more tangible visualization.
Surgery

17. Augmented Reality applications that can enhance textbooks to have
the power to engage a reader in ways that have never been possible.
Children learn better the lesson if they see it like a game.
In mathematics and geometry the main advantage of using an AR
system is that students actually see three dimensional objects.
Education

18. AR in medicine, where an
“error” could drive to a disaster.
A surgeon learns laparoscopic surgery in an augmented reality
situation, there are no real consequences if mistakes are made during
training. These types of training provide opportunities for more
authentic learning and appeal to multiple learning styles.

19. Available Mobile Apps

20. STAR WALK
Tells you exactly what stars, constellations, and satellites you’re looking at as
you point your device at the sky. The camera records both your position in
relation to the sky and where you’re pointing. It then presents information to
you about the cosmos. The app also has a feature called Time Machine that
shows you what the sky looked like in the past or will look like in the future.

21. Google Sky Map
This Android app lets you point your smartphone camera to
the sky and identify the stars, constellations, and planets above
you. Details and scenery change in real time as you move your
handset across the sky.

22. Piclings
An iOS game that uses the to create level layouts for the game.
The game recognizes the images taken by the camera, redefines
them digitally, and incorporates them into the game world.

23. Tissot has launched the first augmented reality
window display at which allows consumers on the
street the chance to virtually "try-on" a 3D watch
from Tissot's pioneering T-Touch watch collection.

24. Conclusion
• Though Augmented Reality has both
advantages & disadvantages, it is a great
way of delivering entertainment media
that uses computer generated graphics
transposed over a real life scene.