Digital content displayed between your eyes and the world in real time

Using the screens that we have in our hands today…

Holograms

Location

Pattern

Outline

Surface

The Goal of AR

• Augmented reality aims to add information and meaning to a real object or place.

Social Augmented Reality

Effects

• Increased transparency • Reduced privacy • Timely access to information • Ubiquitous access to data

Limitations

• Hardware– Cell phone– GPS accuracy– Battery life

• Standardization of the core components the AR markup object – Searchable, – location-aware, – federated, and – share structured metadata?

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derek.moore@wits.ac.za@weblearninghttp://www.weblearning.co.za/blog/

CREDITS

ImagesMac Funamizu -http://bit.ly/dAaZyZ Microsoft Press Kit- http://bit.ly/hgYTKtMatthew Buckland http://matthewbuckland.com/?p=1041