Augmented Reality 101 for Libraries

Nate HillSarah Houghton-Jan

GPS

camera

accelerometer

digital view of the physical world

+digital objects of the virtual world

QR Codes

Wikitude

Layar

Google Goggles

WordLens

AR comes to the Super Bowl

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Cyberspace has leaked into the real world. What was inside the box is outside.

- Vernor Vinge

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Wolf Walk

North Carolina State U

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Beaver Tracks

Oregon State U

San José Public Library’s AR Project

• local history walking tours in San José

• mobile web application

• Layar-based tour

• grant-funded through LSTA (California

State Library)

Development challenges…

• Windows Server w/ Apache, PHP, MySQL

• Testing difficulties– firewall/security– virtual host configuration– need devices and contracts for testing

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Other challenges…

• No Android or iOS developers fit the bill

• Lack of time to do that work in-house

BUT…

• We feel good about the decision to do this in the browser.

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The result:

• I did an awful lot of the the development on MAMP on my own laptop,

• I used my own personal web space as much as I needed to,

• and I borrowed other people’s phones all the time.

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What’s it made of ?

• Drupal 7 • jQuery Mobile framework• Google Maps API 3• As much HTML5 / CSS3 as possible• Layar• Hopefully more platforms as we

continue

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AR’s societal consequences

• connectivity ubiquity

• openness and transparency

• social vs. isolationist

• privacy concerns

Development Resources

• Layar Creation: site.layar.com/create

• Layar: dev.layar.com

• BuildAR: buildar.com

• LayarDotNet: layardotnet.codeplex.com

• Python Django Layar:

pypi.python.org/pypi/djanjo-layar/

• PorPOIse: code.google.com/p/porpoise

questions and discussions