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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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