Augmented Reality Restaurant Guide
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Augmented Reality Restaurant Guide |
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Introduction
Augmented reality(AR) has the potential to visualize information directly within the context of the real world by overlaying graphics on what we see. We present examples from prototype augmented reality systems that show information about restaurants to show some of the ways in which information might be displayed, emphasizing the automated layout of overlaid graphics.
Information at a Glance
We are especially interested in how an AR system could provide “information at a glance” to aid a mobile user exploring an unfamiliar environment. Such a user might be a tourist visiting a foreign city, or even a native trying to find an office building from its address. In figure 1, a user is standing on Broadway across the street from The West End restaurant. The backpack computer’s screen in Figure 1(a) displays the graphics overlaid that is viewed through the see-through head-worn display (Figure 1b). Figure 2 also shows a view of Tom’s Restaurant, the eatery immortalized by Suzanne Vega and Seinfeld, and a related popup window. In this case, the popup window has a brief description, a picture of the restaurant’s interior, and links to the restaurant’s menu, web page, and customer reviews. The popup window is placed so that it does not obscure the restaurant’s projection.
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Figure 1. (a)
Outdoor backpack AR system (b) Image
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| Figure 2. Restaurant information appears in popup window. |
If you are interested or have more questions you can contact me at blaine@cs.columbia.edu or Steve Feiner at feiner@cs.columbia.edu.
Reference
This web page was based on:
B. Bell, S. Feiner, and T. Höllerer, View Management for Virtual and Augmented Reality, In Proc. UIST '01, Orlando, FL, November 11-14 2001. pp. 101-110.
B. Bell, T. Höllerer, and S. Feiner, An Annotated Situation-Awareness Aid for Augmented Reality, In Proc. UIST '02, Paris, France, October 27-30 2002. pp. 213-216.
B. Bell, S. Feiner, and T. Höllerer, Information at a glance, Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, vol. 22, pp. 6-9, 2002.
Last Updated: April 14, 2004 by Blaine Bell