80 million people – almost 1/3 of the entire population of the U.S. That’s a powerful number. It’s the generation born between 1946 and 1964.
Bringing Virtual Objects into the Real World
If you own an iPhone, you are already using augmented reality with the application Monocle. By combining the phone’s camera view with tiny tags indicating the names, distances and user ratings of nearby bars, restaurants and stores, you are using augmented reality.
With video-see-through technology, AR hand-held devices such as tablet PC’s, PDA’s, or camera cell phones, (or in many cases just a webcam and our standard computer monitor), you hold the device up and “see through” the display to view both the real world and the superimposed virtual object. You can move around and see the virtual object, model, animation, or game from different views as the AR system performs alignment of the real and virtual cameras automatically. All you need is a computer, printer, and a webcam.
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