Augmented Reality Panel Notes

Media Lab brand of research:

Today I spoke with Pattie, and she told me how she is interested in more people working in the area of projected augmented reality because it has such a broad range of possibilities enabled by mobile media and mobile projection. She mention that keeping things simple is often key to making it work.

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Critical mass of "projected augmented reality research"

Levelhead - playing a game with a virtual character that is in a virtual world.
(nice project reference)

Transparent Cockpit - very nice project that shows what is outside - by removing the physical objects that are in front of you.
(also see through people, the use of projection to go behind things - remove physical world)

Twinkle - interacting with the real world. Very nice project with augmenting the world around you.

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Augmented reality for remote augmentation

Guiding light project - for navigational assistant - embedding a compass or other device to get the orientation of the device. (location based interaction)

Bslam - (example project)

Pet as a navigation guide - virtual pet as a walking companion in the night.

Augmented reality pool...


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What is the robot used for information systems - Digital Desk to Sixth Sense..

Lamp exists in an ecosystem with other devices - wants to make it invisible.

BonFire - mounting the cameras behind the computer - uses computer vision to track hands etc..

Small form factor - eyeglasses vs. flash in the pan. Elitist system would emerge - social affordances of shared interface... INTERSTING Point

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Augmented Human Conference - find the proceedings and look at them..