1. Learning from Iron Man and the Terminator: Bringing Augmented Reality to Libraries Markus Wust NCSU Libraries TRLN Annual Meeting July 13, 2012

2. What is Augmented Reality? Common Public Perception: Terminator Iron Man Terminator

3. What is Augmented Reality?... a real-time direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment that has been enhanced / augmented by adding virtual computer-generated information to it. Carmigiani et al., Augmented reality technologies, systems and applications (2011)

4. Augmented Reality: So What? We have been augmenting our reality with additional information for a long time…

9. AR technology has been around for a while, too: Ivan Sutherland's Head-Mounted Display (1968)

10. So… … why is everybody getting interested in it now?

11. Answer: iPhone / Android /...

12. Affordances of New Devices More processing power Better/larger displays Better sensor technology (location, orientation, tilt, movement)

13. Some Examples of AR Use

14. AR in Marketing

15. AR in Entertainment

16. Example: Pac-Man

17. AR in Education New Media Consortium 2010 Horizon Report Augmented reality offers new modes of learning Also included in 2011 Report

19. Instruction

20. Digital Collections WolfWalk BeaverTracksPhillyHistory.org

21. Wayfinding WolfWalk PowerCat (Kansas State University)

22. We have come a long way...

23. … but there's still work to do

24. In-Door Location Detection - GPS does not work in most in-door locations - Possible solutions: – RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) – Barcodes – Image Recognition

25. Displays Either: -cumbersome and immersive Or: - small, but only viewport

26. Possible Solutions - AR Glasses - AR contact lenses

27. Thank You! mgwust@ncsu.edu