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Zooming Interfaces for Augmented Reality on Phones

Many "AR Browsers" for mobile phones are now hitting the market: They can access large amounts of spatial information from online sources, presenting it at the corresponding physical locations via Augmented Reality.

However, Augmented Reality is constrained to the camera's fixed field of view and restricted to first-person views. This can limit the amount of overview that users can gain. Typical solutions in AR Browsers are overlays (e.g., radars) that are not always sufficiently informative, in particular on small screens.

We present two zooming interfaces that compensate for these constraints by enabling users to smoothly zoom between the Augmented Reality view and (1) an egocentric panoramic view at 360 degrees, and (2) an exocentric top-down view.

All interfaces run interactively (ca. 15 fps) on a Nokia 6210 Navigator phone.

 

website maintained by Dieter Schmalstieg
last updated on 2010-05-29

News

Spotlight Paper for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Our paper Real-Time Detection and Tracking for Augmented Reality on Mobile Phones has been selected as Spotlight Paper for the May/June 2010 issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics!.

New CamTest Version

There is now a completely rewritten CamTest application for download on our camera phones page. The new app has a completely rewritten DirectShow engine, works with screen-only devices and has many new features.

Studierstube ES Tech Demo - December 2009

We have added a new video showing skeletal animation of a high detailed motion capture plus tracking under very low lighting conditions. More....

AR Jakomini Video

We have added a new video showing our ISMAR 2009 demo. Do not miss it! More....

World Wide Signpost

We added a preview on our newest research on annotating physical objects. You can find a video and a short summary on the Word Wide Signpost project page. More....

More Flash AR Applications

Imagination has put two demos for their flare technology online. Try for yourself the marker tracking demo and the natural feature tracking demo.

ISMAR 2009 Demo Teaser Video

There is a new video on our video page with a short preview of our ISMAR 2009 demo. Come to our ISMAR demo booth and play the real thing!

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