Artist: KAROLINA SOBECKA | http://www.gravitytrap.com
add information to a book, by looking at the book and the screen at the same time.
Display type III: Projection based Augmented Reality With projection based AR we project virtual 3D
Display type II: AR glasses (off-screen)
scenes or objects on a surface of a building of an
A far more sophisticated but not yet consumer
exactly the dimensions of the object we project
friendly method uses AR glasses or a head
AR info onto. The projection is seen on the object
mounted display (HMD), also called a head-up
or building with remarkable precision. This can
display. With this device the extra information is
generate very sophisticated or wild projections
object (or a person). To do this, we need to know
mixed with one’s own perception of the world.
on buildings. The Augmented Matter in Context
The virtual images appear in the air, in the real
group, led by Jouke Verlinden at the Faculty of
world, around you, and are not projected on a
Industrial Design Engineering, TU-Delft, uses
screen. In type II there are two types of mixing
projection-based AR for manipulating the appear-
the real world with the virtual world:
ance of products.
Video see-through: a camera captures the real world. The virtual images are mixed with the captures (video images) of the real world and this mix creates an Augmented Reality. Optical see-through: the real world is perceived
CONNECTING ART AND TECHNOLOGY
directly with one’s own eyes in real time. Via small translucent mirrors in goggles, virtual
The 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed
images are displayed on top of the perceived
and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) was held in
Reality.
Basel, Switzerland. In the track Arts, Media, and
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