Advances with Nokia

This is interesting! From the previous post, here is Nokia's attempt to incorporate augmented reality. In Nokia’s mobile-augmented-reality prototype, a user can actually point to a near building with the camera of a phone. Then the system actually calculates the building’s location and uses that information to identify it.

The idea of superimposing digital information in the real world through the use of augmented reality has been discussed more in the past year, and there are a number of interesting ideas and proposals out there. Here is an article from this past spring about this topic:

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=emerging&id=18291

View Management

View management is the layout decisions that determine spatial relationships between 2-D and 3-D objects. Here is a picture demonstrating such a visual system:

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/projects/ViewManagement/vm_small.jpg

"SenseShapes"

There are always various projects being conducted with the use of augmented reality. This site shows one example of a program that uses a variety of tools to help better distance finding with augmented reality:

http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/projects/SenseShapes/