Slides for "Augmented Reality’s First Educational Applications" videoconference session, http://www.nitle.org/events/event.php?id=70 "What is augmented reality (AR), and how can it be used on the liberal arts campus? In this session, this recently evolving technology for layering digital content over the physical world will be explained, and a variety of examples and platforms, from the iPhone to Android, will be shared. Participants will be guided through a survey of possible liberal arts uses, ranging from campus information to urban studies to new media. This interactive discussion is the third in this spring’s “Special Topics in Emerging Technologies” series. The series will focus on three technologies identified in The Horizon Report (2010 edition) as likely to be adopted in the next one to three years. Bryan Alexander, NITLE’s director of research, chaired the advisory board for this year’s Horizon Report, which is published annually by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). This year’s report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education in the next five years. "

1. Augmented reality: an early 2010 survey Bryan Alexander National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education

2. Plan for the day What is it? History and state of the art Why do this? Current examples AR on campus Current examples Trends and possibles for 2010-2011

3. What is AR? Not VR HUDs J. Spohrer, WorldBoard “Information in places” (IBM Systems Journal, 1999) Language grapples: Magic window Mixed reality Reading the environment Annotate the world Laminating the physical world a “looking glass” into an invisible world

4. Components Hardware Mobile device (e.g., phone) Camera Display screen (glasses, phone) Network infrastructure Location awareness (GPS) Attitude awareness (accelerometer) Compass Software Local apps Web services Content server

5. Light AR Museum tours GPS navigators (Garmin) Location services (Yelp) http://www.flickr.com/photos/joc67/774419510/ Photo from Jimmy Joe

6. Marker-based AR Living antecedent: bar codes QR Microsoft Tag

7. Marker-based AR Another antecedent: CueCat Google Googles

8. Deeper AR Superimpose digital data onto local imagery Glasses or phone

9. Why use it? Add information to a place http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/augmented-reality-hits-wimbledon-tennis-championship (Wimbledon example)

10. Rotterdam Market Hall http://layar.com/layar-30-launched-5-cases-to-show-the-power-of-the-platform/ Visualization

11. Mondrian; http://layar.com/layar-30-launched-5-cases-to-show-the-power-of-the-platform/ Creative arts

12. Wikitude User geotagging http://wikitude.me/ “World Browser”

13. .edu examples: iTacitus European Commission research project Palazzo Diana, Florence http://www.itacitus.org/ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090812104219.htm

14. Campus uses “’RealtàAumentata’… a thesis project by a student at the Valle Giulia Faculty of Architecture in Italy.” (HR 2010) http://vimeo.com/2341387

15. Campus uses “Gratz University of Technology, Austria, has developed campus and museum tours using augmented reality. Looking through the camera on a mobile phone while walking the campus, students see tagged classrooms inside the buildings. At the museum, a virtual tour guide accompanies users through the halls.” (HR 2010)

16. Campus uses Campus life through AR: Georgia Tech http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/lab/2009/10/

17. Campus uses “The ARIS engine allows game designers to place virtual items, characters and pages in physical space using the iPhone’s GPS or a little barcode that can be placed on a wall or near an object. By giving the players a story and a number of quests, games can be built that involve a mix of physical and virtual activities.” (U Wisconsin, http://arisgames.org/)

19. Emergent trends and possibles Hardware beyond the mobile phone Goggles Contact lenses (ex: http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/0 (BabakParviz, IEEE Spectrum)

20. Emergent trends and possibles AR skies Google Skymaps (http://www.google.com/sky/skymap/) Bing sky (TED) http://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera.html

21. Emergent trends and possibles “Games using marker technology often include a flat game board or map which becomes a 3D setting when viewed with a mobile device or a webcam. This kind of game could easily be applied to a range of disciplines, including archaeology, history, anthropology, or geography, to name a few…” (HR 2010)

22. Emergent trends and possibles “…Another approach to AR gaming allows players or game masters to create virtual people and objects, tying them to a specific location in the real world. Players interact with these constructs, which appear when the player approaches a linked location in the real world.” (HR 2010) (Mad City Mystery, http://tinyurl.com/ybdsfzp)

23. Emergent trends and possibles Practical challenges Huge amounts of data crunching Interface awkwardness Location-based advertising Copyright and other IP Social media content contribution

24. Emergent trends and possibles “[L]et’s get cynical about this technology and it’s trajectory. This “true glimpse” of history won’t sell well, compared to Disneyfied “untrue glimpses.” Wherever there is “Intelligent Tourism,” brutal, vulgar and stupid tourism follows fast on its heels!...” http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/08/augmented-reality-and-atemporality/ Bruce Sterling, 2009

25. Emergent trends and possible “Soon we’ll have some themepark Creationist Augmented Reality, where you can visit the Grand Canyon and see pre-Noachian people pan-frying trilobites and riding dinosaurs.)))” http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/08/augmented-reality-and-atemporality/ Bruce Sterling, 2009

26. More resources ELI, 7 Things You Need to Know About Augmented Reality, http://educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7007.pdf Eric Klopfer, Augmented Learning (MIT, 2008) J.D. Spohrer, “Information in Places” (1999) Adam Greenfeld, Everyware(New Riders, 2006) http://delicious.com/tag/hz10+augmentedreality

27. Companies to watch Layar Metaiohttp://www.metaio.com/ Microsoft (Tag: http://www.microsoft.com/tag/) Ogmento Wikitude ARSights (http://www.arsights.com/) Also IBM, Google

28. Even more resources NITLE blog, Techne http://blogs.nitle.org Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/horizon Bryan’s research Twitter http://twitter.com/bryanalexander