Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Augmented Reality

A technological architecture that interface virtuality with reality. Examples:

1. smart codes, using code reader software to recognize the codes through video feed. Semapedia lets users create tags which are "cellphone-readable physical hyperlinks", promotes. Information from the Internet was brought to the relevant physical places through these tags.
2. ARToolkit, a software library for building Augmented Reality (AR) applications (under GPL license), was developed at the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Laboratory.

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