Slides for GDG Kyiv Android club meeting #7 Author: Borys Pratciuk

1. Augmented reality and mobile
learning: the state of the art
Borys Pratsiuk, Ph.D.
Senior Android Consultant
Ciklum Interactive Technology

2. Our story today
• Introduction
• What is augmented reality
• How to start?
• Technical challenge, skills.
• Code for Android developers
• AR near future
• Demo

3. What is augmented reality (AR)?
• Goal of AR is to add information and meaning to a real object or
place
• Enables learners to “explore” the physical world without assuming
any prior knowledge
• Superimpose “information overlays” or layers, onto the world around
you, using a handheld device
• Add audio commentary, location data, historical context or other
forms of content that can make a user’s experience of a thing or a
place more meaningful

6. Current uses of AR
• Sports coverage
• Retail/marketing
• Networking (‘Augmented ID’) or find someone in a crowd
• Aviation (‘head-up displays’ on windscreen of plane)
• Training or task support
• Navigation
• Sightseeing e.g. outdoor venues; museums and art galleries

7. Future of AR
• Google glass
• Holo leans
• Oculus Rift
• Mobile apps
• Car navigation
• Wearable IoT
• TV with 3D extensions

8. Defining technology-enhanced realities: virtual,
mixed and augmented
• Fusion of digital information in real world settings
• 3 essential properties:
– real and virtual objects in real environment
– a system that aligns these objects
– that runs interactively in real time
• Not just graphical media: can also be textual, audio, video, haptic
• Context is key; also explicit intentionality of media

9. QR code scaner
• SDK:
• https://github.com/zxing/zxing
• https://github.com/ZBar/ZBar
• Install client: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?
id=com.google.zxing.client.android

10. Existing SDK for object draw
• Vuforia - now 2015 www.qualcomm.com/products/vuforia
• Metaio - now 2015 www.metaio.com/index.html
• NyARToolkit - now 2015 https://github.com/nyatla/NyARToolkit
• ARLab - 2012 ($) www.arlab.com/
• DroidAR - 14 Dec 2013 https://github.com/bitstars/droidar
• AndAR - 29 Nov 2010 https://code.google.com/p/andar/

11. Skills
• Location (GPS)
• Sensors
• Image processing (OpenCV)
• openGL + 3D modeling
• NFC, Bluetooth

12. AndAR viewer
• Camera capturing (android.hardware.Camera)
• Draw openGL android.opengl.GLSurfaceView;)
• Create openGL model in Blender https://www.blender.org/support/
tutorials/
• Model parser http://www.opengl-tutorial.org/beginners-tutorials/
tutorial-7-model-loading/
• AndAR library build (NDK)

13. Source code of AndARModelViewer
https://github.com/bosicc/AndARModelViewer

14. Let’s try

15. Questions

16. Contacts