Augmented reality uses technologies like GPS, cameras, and accelerometers to overlay digital objects and information on top of the real world. Examples of augmented reality applications include QR code readers, visual search apps, and location-based experiences created with platforms like Layar and Wikitude. Libraries are exploring uses of augmented reality, such as local history walking tours created by the San Jose Public Library using the Layar platform. Development of augmented reality brings up societal issues around connectivity, privacy, and the balance between an increasingly digital world and real-world isolation.

1. Augmented Reality a primer for libraries Sarah Houghton-Jan Digital Futures Manager, San Jose Public Library Author, LibrarianInBlack.net

4. GPS / cell ID camera accelerometer

5. open layers

6. digital view of the physical world + digital objects of the virtual world

9. QR Codes

10. SnapShop ShopSavvy

11. General Electric Augmented Reality ad

12. Sony Playstation EyePet Project

13. Wikitude

15. Layar

24. Cyberspace has leaked into the real world. What was inside the box…is outside. - Vernor Vinge

25. Wolf Walk North Carolina State U

26. Beaver Tracks Ohio State U

27. SJPL’s AR Project local history walking tours in San José Layar-based our own app grant-funded

41. AR’s societal consequences connectivity ubiquity openness and transparency social vs. isolationist privacy concerns

42. Development Resources Layar Creation: site.layar.com/create Layar: dev.layar.com BuildAR: buildar.com LayarDotNet: layardotnet.codeplex.com Python Django Layar: pypi.python.org/pypi/djanjo-layar/ PorPOIse: code.google.com/p/porpoise

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