Austrian University studies Augmented Reality on mobile devices
This Monday I attended an extremely interesting presentation by Daniel Wagner of the Graz University of Technology. Daniel holds a Master in computer science and has been working on mobile augmented reality projects. He showed a few stunning demonstrations on what a combination between reality and a digital camera can create. One example was a tour through a campus in which users of a mobile phone could look through their mobile’s camera and actually see the buildings or rooms with certain tags on them.
Another application was a museum tour in which a virtual cartoon guide would explain them certain items whenever they looked through their mobile. (See image)
Interactive gaming with this kind of augmented reality was also shown in a short movie where a PDA camera was used as an interface together with a real life map. On the camera display the games virtual characters were shown as they moved and behaved in certain ways with the real map as the playing board. The player could also shoot the “bad guys” on his PDA and interact with this mixed reality environment .
There are several very promising ways in which these projects could help mobile learning professionals to create an entire new level of mobile learning. If you have the time and haven’t visited it yet, I really recommend to check out the demo page of the Graz University of Technology.
Link demo page of Graz University of Technology: http://studierstube.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/handheld_ar/media_press.php
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