Mobile Augmented Reality Applications to Discover New Environments

International audiencealthough man has become sedentary over time, his wish to travel the world remains as strong as ever. The aim of this paper is to show how techniques based on imagery and Augmented Reality (AR) can prove to be of great help when discovering a new urban environment and observing the evolution of the natural environment. The study's support is naturally the Smartphone which in just a few years has become our most familiar device, which we take with us practically everywhere we go in our daily lives

Mobile Augmented Reality Applications to Discover New Environments

Although man has become sedentary over time, his wish to travel the world remains as strong as ever. The aim of this paper is to show how techniques based on imagery and Augmented Reality (AR) can prove to be of great help when discovering a new urban environment and observing the evolution of the natural environment. The study's support is naturally the Smartphone which in just a few years has become our most familiar device, which we take with us practically everywhere we go in our daily lives.Comment: Science and Information Conference 2013, France (2013

What does augmented reality mean as a medium of expression for computational artists?

As augmented reality (AR) quickly evolves with new technological practice, there is a growing need to question and reevaluate its potential as a medium for creative expression. The authors discuss AR within computational art, framed within AR as a medium, AR aesthetics and applications. The Forum for Augmented Reality Immersive Instruments (ARImI), a two-day event on AR, highlights both possibilities and fundamental concerns for continuing artworks in this field, including visual bias, sensory modalities, interactivity and performativity. The authors offer a new AR definition as real-time computationally mediated perception

Ingénierie de la conception de systèmes de réalité augmentée mobile. Applications de la réalité augmentée mobile au tourisme culturel

Le système M.A.R. T.S a été conçu avec l'objectif de proposer un nouveau mode de médiation au musée. Lorsque la visite au musée se déroule sans guide conférencier, les outils de médiation classiques comme l'audio-guide ou les étiquettes montrent rapidement leurs limites en termes d'interaction humaine. Nous proposons donc de permettre au visiteur d'interagir avec un guide humain virtuel appuyé de nos paradigmes d'interaction " Sélection Documentation Reconstruction", puisant leurs principes de la réalité augmentée. L'objectif, par le biais de nos propositions, est de créer les conditions propices à un contact riche avec la collection, et de donner au visiteur les outils nécessaires pour qu'il puisse vivre une expérience d'apprentissage riche au musée. Les expérimentations que nous avons menées vont dans ce sens, montrant l'efficacité de ce nouveau mode de médiation. Qui plus est, les principes d'interactions sont suffisamment généraux pour dépasser le cadre original de la visite guidée au musée et peuvent être exploitée pour une visite guidée à l'extérieur.M.A.R.T.S system was built in order to propose a new mode of museum mediation. When the museum visit take place without a human guide, classical mediation tools such as labels or audio-guide rapidly show their limits in terms of human interaction. We therefore propose to allow visitors to interact with a virtual human guide supported by our interaction paradigms "Selection Documentation Reconstruction", which are based on augmented reality. The aim behind our proposals is to ensure favorable conditions for a rich contact with collections, and provide the visitor with necessary tools enabling him to live a worthwhile learning experience in the museum. The experiments we have conducted go in this direction, showing the effectiveness of this new mode of museum mediation. Moreover, interactions principles are sufficiently general to be applied to other cultural heritage activities such as outdoor guided tours