This document provides an overview of augmented reality (AR) and discusses: 1. The basics of AR including scene capture, identification, processing and visualization. 2. The differences between AR and virtual reality, with AR enhancing the real world and VR being a totally immersive simulated environment. 3. Best practices of AR including providing context-sensitive information, enhancing senses, exploring the virtual in real environments, and using virtual interfaces to control real-world objects. 4. Applications of AR including navigation, military, medical, maintenance and repair, and invention.

1. AUGMENTED REALITY
SEMINAR [CS681]
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SERIAL NO. NAME ROLL NO.
01 Suchit Agarwal 01
02 Anirban Bannerjee 03
03 Devaneeta Basu 07
04 Manan Ranjan Chakroborty 11
05 Samarpan Dutta 27
06 Tamoghna Hazra 36
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2. AUGMENTED REALITY
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3. CONTENTS
Introduction
Literature survey
Basics of AR
Virtual reality
Virtual reality vs. Augmented reality
Best Practices of AR
Applications
Hardware Overview
Software Overview
Future of AR
Conclusion
References
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4. INTRODUCTION
Augmented reality superimposes information in our field of view.
It takes us into a world where real and virtual worlds are tightly coupled.
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5. LITERATURE SURVEY
In 1997, a survey was published which described many problems
and summarized the developments up to the point.
In the late 1990s, several conferences, workshops and symposiums
on Augmented reality was conducted.
Mixed Reality Systems Laboratory in Japan and Project ARVIKA in
Germany focused on AR.
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6. BASICS OF AR
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SCENE
CAPTURE
SCENE
IDENTIFICATION
SCENE
PROCESSING
SCENE
VISUALISATION

7. VIRTUAL REALITY
Virtual reality is an environment which is computer simulated and the
simulation could be that of an imaginary world.
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8. 1. Virtual reality (VR) is an
artificial, computer-generated
simulation or recreation of a
real life environment or
situation.
2. Virtual reality creates its own
reality that is completely
computer generated and
driven.
1. Augmented reality (AR) is a
technology that layers
computer-generated
enhancements atop an existing
reality.
2. Augmented reality enhances
experiences by adding virtual
components as a new layer of
interaction with the real world.
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VIRTUAL REALITY vs. AUGMENTED REALITY

9. System
augments
the real
world scene.
Totally
immersive
environment
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VR vs AR

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 Augmented reality and virtual reality are inverse reflections of one
in another.
 Virtual reality offers a digital recreation of a real life setting, while
augmented reality delivers virtual elements as an overlay to the
real world.

11. BEST PRACTICES OF AR
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12. CONTEXT-SENSITIVE INFORMATION -
INFORMATION AT RIGHT TIME AND PLACE
AR Gadget gives information relevant to the real world object.
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13. ENHANCES SENSES
AR gadgets can sense the real world thus giving us real-time information on
weather and all other user specific details.
RECON JET
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14. EXPLORING THE VIRTUAL IN REAL
These so-called mixed-reality simulations allow users to dynamically
adapt or change virtual objects in the real environment.
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15. VIRTUAL INTERFACES –
CONTROLLING THE REAL THROUGH VIRTUAL
Virtual interfaces, focuses on AR technologies that offer new options
for controlling real-world objects through digital means.
REVOLV-HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM
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16. APPLICATIONS OF
AUGMENTED REALITY
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17. NAVIGATION
GOOGLE EARTH
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18. HMDs for
Ground Troops
HUDs for
Air Force
MILITARYAPPLICATIONS
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19.  Tumour surgery using an iPad app developed
by Fraunhofer Institute for Medical Image
Computing MEVIS in Germany.
 VR Dentist is a dental app that uses virtual
and augmented reality for educational
purposes.
 Vipaar - A remote surgeon could essentially
project his hands into the display of a
surgeon on site wearing Glass and point and
guide.
 AccuVein
MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
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20. A mechanic wearing a tracked head-worn display performs a
maintenance task inside an LAV-25A1 armoured personnel carrier.
MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR
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21. A user manipulates 3D virtual buttons while receiving
haptic feedback from the underlying grooves of an engine
compression section.
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INVENTION OF THE ERA
MICROSOFT
HOLOLENSE

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HARDWARE OVERVIEW
 Hand-held Devices
 Stationary AR Systems
 Spatial AR systems
 Head Mounted Displays
(HMDs)
 Heads Up Displays (HUDs)

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SOFTWARE OVERVIEW
The software must derive real world coordinates, independent from the
camera, from camera images by a process called image registration .
Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML) is a data standard
developed within the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), which consists
of XML grammar to describe the location and appearance of virtual
objects in the scene.
Some of the well known AR SDKs are offered by Vuforia, AR Toolkit,
Catchoom CraftAR, Mobinett AR, Wikitude, Blippar, Layar, and Meta.

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POKEMON GO SNAPCHAT

26.  Perceived as the technology of the future.
 Changing perspective and transforming surrounding.
 Revolutionising company’s business models.
 One day might surpass smartphones as the dominant way people
interact with computers.
 It seems the average customer isn’t as eager to pay US $600 for
bulky goggles simply to peruse the rather limited catalogue of
available VR content.
 Can only succeed if people are educated about the true worth of the
products.
FUTURE OF
AUGMENTED REALITY
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27. CONCLUSION
Augmented reality (AR) is quickly becoming an important technology
in the enterprise.
Bridges the digital world and the physical world .
Covered a long way from a science-fiction concept to a science-based
reality.
AR or augmented reality has gone from pipe dream to reality in just
over a century.
However, AR is limited by a highly fragmented ecosystem of
hardware platforms and operating systems.
A new step towards a better future.
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REFERENCES
 Virtual Reality and Its Impact on Society by Joseph D. Cotrell and Valerie
Schroeder, published on February 6, 2011.
 “AUGMENTED REALITY IN LOGISTICS Changing the way we see
logistics –a DHL perspective 2014”- written by Holger Glockner, Kai Jannek,
Johannes Mahn, Björn Theis.
 ‘A Survey of Augmented Reality’, R. Azuma, Presence: Teleoperators and
Virtual Environments vol. 6, no. 4, Aug. 1997, pp. 355-385.
 International Symposium on Mixed Reality. The link is http://www.mr-
system.co.jp/ismr.
 International Symposium on Augmented Reality. The link where the details
can be found is http://www.Augmented-Reality.org/isar.
 Project ARVIKA http://www.arvika.de/www/e/miscel/sitemap.htm.

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