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Glimpses of Augmented Reality

Image: Images: TOBIAS HOLLERER, STEVEN K. FEINER AND JOHN PAVLIK, Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab, Columbia University (mobile AR documentaries); JANNICK ROLLAND Optical Diagnostics and Applications Laboratory, School of Optics, University of Central Florida (knee joint)

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab built an experimental outdoor system designed to help a tourist explore the university's campus. The laptop on the user's backpack supplies the computer graphics that are superimposed on the optical see-through display. GPS receivers track the user's position.

The lab created a historical documentary that shows three-dimensional images of the Bloomingdale Asylum, the prior occupant of Columbia's campus,


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