Visual servoing-based augmented reality

The notion of Augmented Reality (AR) is to mix computer-generated, synthetic elements (3D/2D graphics, 3D audio) with real world in such a way that the synthetic elements appear to be part of the real world. There are various techniques to accomplish this, including magnetic tracking of position and orientation, and video-based tracking. This paper focuses on the video-based AR i

Virtual reality

Virtual reality is still in its infancy. However, many contemporary applications already have proven virtual reality to be indispensable to everyday life. For instance, the technology of virtual product design and manufacturing makes the new products better and cheaper. The applications of VR in medicine allow doctors to diagnose a disease more accurately. Without a doubt, it has and will foster more innovative research and applications. High-resolution, low-lag and low-price systems will be the focus of future virtual reality research. The technology has been infiltrated into many application fields, involving training, medical, engineering; space exploring and communication.published_or_final_versio

THE USE OF AUGMENTED REALITY IN COMMAND AND CONTROL SITUATION AWARENESS

Augmented reality is not completely new technology, but rather an interestingcombination of existing technologies, facilitated by the rapid progress made onultra-portable devices such as smart cellular telephones. It has the potential toenhance the situation awareness of military operators. This study identifies possibleuses of augmented reality in command and control applications with specificattention to situation awareness in the South African context. Applications across thedifferent command and control functions, as well as at the different levels of militaryoperations are considered. The article concludes with some concept definitions foraugmented reality applications

A Review on Industrial Augmented Reality Systems for the Industry 4.0 Shipyard

[Absctract]: Shipbuilding companies are upgrading their inner workings in order to create Shipyards 4.0, where the principles of Industry 4.0 are paving the way to further digitalized and optimized processes in an integrated network. Among the different Industry 4.0 technologies, this paper focuses on augmented reality, whose application in the industrial field has led to the concept of industrial augmented reality (IAR). This paper first describes the basics of IAR and then carries out a thorough analysis of the latest IAR systems for industrial and shipbuilding applications. Then, in order to build a practical IAR system for shipyard workers, the main hardware and software solutions are compared. Finally, as a conclusion after reviewing all the aspects related to IAR for shipbuilding, it proposed an IAR system architecture that combines cloudlets and fog computing, which reduce latency response and accelerate rendering tasks while offloading compute intensive tasks from the cloud.This work was supported by the Plant Information and Augmented Reality research line of the Navantia-UDC Joint Research Unit