1st Edition

Spatial Augmented Reality Merging Real and Virtual Worlds

By Oliver Bimber, Ramesh Raskar Copyright 2005
392 Pages
by A K Peters/CRC Press

392 Pages
by A K Peters/CRC Press

Like virtual reality, augmented reality is becoming an emerging platform in new application areas for museums, edutainment, home entertainment, research, industry, and the art communities using novel approaches which have taken augmented reality beyond traditional eye-worn or hand-held displays. In this book, the authors discuss spatial augmented reality approaches that exploit optical elements,... Read more
Preface, 1 A Brief Introduction to Augmented Reality, 2 Fundamentals: From Photons to Pixels, 3 Augmented Reality Displays, 4 Geometric Projection Concepts, 5 Creating Images with Spatial Projection Displays, 6 Generating Optical Overlays, 7 Projector-Based Illumination and Augmentation, 8 Examples of Spatial AR Displays, 9 The Future, A Calibration of a Projector (or a Camera), B OpenGL’s Transformation Pipeline Partially Re-Implemented, Bibliography

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Oliver Bimber, Ramesh Raskar