Augmented Reality To Help Military Mechanics Fix Vehicles (Video. ARMAR guides military mechanics to make repairs using graphics on a head mounted display. The days when you can fix your own car may be coming to an end. New vehicles have complex onboard computerized systems densely packed under the hood. Mechanics face an ever climbing learning curve to keep up with advancing automotive technology. Luckily, developers at Columbia University’s Computer Graphics and User Interface Lab have created a system that guides you as you make repairs. ARMAR, or Augmented Reality for Maintenance and Repair, is a head mounted display unit that provides graphic overlays to assist you in making repairs. Augmented Reality (AR) has seen a growing number of applications in the last year. ARMAR is the project of Prof. Feiner and Henderson have also experimented with rudimentary haptic feedback by using the repair environment as a platform for projecting control buttons.
That time, of course, is approaching rapidly. Augmented Reality Does Time Travel Tourism. A telescope so powerful you can see into the past. Great scott! Augmented reality is taking tourists and thrusting them back in time to experience the sights (and sometimes sounds) of the ancient world. Using a camera and video screen, AR blends live and digital images in real time, giving you the sense that artificial objects are appearing in the physical world. In China, France, Switzerland, Germany, and many other locations, reconstructed images of past landmarks are being displayed overlapping with the current appearance giving tourists the sense of traveling back in time. We’ve got a bunch of videos for you after the break, so check them all out.
We’ve seen augmented reality used in a variety of applications, from futuristic baseball cards to taking a tour of the starship Enterprise. The Cluny Abbey in France has one of the simpler AR systems for tourist time travel, it’s pretty much just a giant screen that acts as a “window to the past” as you look through it. Ghostwire.