Comments on: ISMAR09 and the future of AR http://www.ydreams.com/blog/2009/11/03/ismar09-and-the-future-of-ar/ The official company blog about technology, projects, corporate life and all things YDreams Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:51:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Kyungdahm Yun http://www.ydreams.com/blog/2009/11/03/ismar09-and-the-future-of-ar/comment-page-1/#comment-1816 Kyungdahm Yun Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:35 +0000 http://www.ydreams.com/blog/?p=579#comment-1816 It seems that Nokia is already working on spatial audio which might be led to a cool hear-through technology. Soundwalk has shown location-based audio services which might be expanded to aural AR services. There are also some ISMAR papers on augmented audio published by Japaneses researchers. I think this audio-based AR has great potential for mobile AR combined with LBS. Vision-based AR is still not mature for general adaptation. There are also many things which can be done without computer vision. It seems that Nokia is already working on spatial audio which might be led to a cool hear-through technology. Soundwalk has shown location-based audio services which might be expanded to aural AR services. There are also some ISMAR papers on augmented audio published by Japaneses researchers.

I think this audio-based AR has great potential for mobile AR combined with LBS. Vision-based AR is still not mature for general adaptation. There are also many things which can be done without computer vision.

]]> By: Diogo Almeida http://www.ydreams.com/blog/2009/11/03/ismar09-and-the-future-of-ar/comment-page-1/#comment-1801 Diogo Almeida Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:53:25 +0000 http://www.ydreams.com/blog/?p=579#comment-1801 We already have a basic technology to augment hearing! When we use those small, in-ear headphones, that can't completely block exterior sound, we can hear both. It is effectively a "hear-through" device, in the same way AR glasses are "see-through". Now we just have to make the right sound play in the right time, sort of what "geo-location" does for vision AR. The technology isn't mature, so I don't know if there are any haptic gloves out there that can do this, but the same could be done in terms of "touch-through". Even with gloves we can feel rough edges and textures - any small vibration in some parts of the glove in addition to the feeling of real-word objects, would be AR touch. We already have a basic technology to augment hearing! When we use those small, in-ear headphones, that can’t completely block exterior sound, we can hear both.
It is effectively a “hear-through” device, in the same way AR glasses are “see-through”.

Now we just have to make the right sound play in the right time, sort of what “geo-location” does for vision AR.

The technology isn’t mature, so I don’t know if there are any haptic gloves out there that can do this, but the same could be done in terms of “touch-through”. Even with gloves we can feel rough edges and textures - any small vibration in some parts of the glove in addition to the feeling of real-word objects, would be AR touch.

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