Reality Browsers Research Articles

Formation of digital literacy of schoolchildren in the aspect of application of augmented reality technology

In modern school education, the problem of teaching schoolchildren the technology of augmented reality and developing the corresponding components of digital literacy is becoming more urgent. The elective course "The real world with elements of unreality", aimed at developing digital literacy of schoolchildren in the aspect of using augmented reality technology, includes the following modules: "Theoretical basis of augmented reality", "Software and hardware of augmented reality", "Augmented reality browsers", "Development of an augmented reality product". Practical work with AR applications is organized based on the use of blended learning technology "Changing work areas". While going through the route, students get acquainted with the functionality of augmented reality applications in the following subject areas: foreign language, biology, history, geometry, fine arts. The creation of an augmented reality product (stereometric figure) is organized through project activities. Testing of the elective course showed the availability of educational material and a high level of cognitive interest of students in studying augmented reality technology.

THE RISE OF AUGMENTED REALITY BROWSERS: TRENDS, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES (Review Paper)

An augmented reality browser is an alternative of a web browser in augmented spaces, which aimed at navigating and publishing overlaid interactive contents. This enabled end users to explore digital information on existing points of interests (POIs) and the application developers to publish overlaid information in the form of layers and channels, etc. These browsing interfaces were vital for publishing and locating contents to unfold the potential of augmented spaces. This paper contributed an analytical review on the recent emergence of mobile augmented reality browsers from the perspective of technological information publishing and usage scenarios. This comparative analysis of the augmented reality browsers would help researchers and industrial scientists to identify the most relevant augmented reality browser for specific applications like object tracking, content overlaying, and ensuring realism up to major extent. This study would also provide guidelines for next generation enriched, seamless and adaptive augmented reality browsers.

Features of using methods and means of the augmented reality technology when teaching a foreign language

The problem and the aim of the study. The integration of digital technologies into modern curricula in a foreign language supports the solution of tasks of higher professional education in terms of training a demanded and competitive specialist. The purpose of the work is to study the features of using methods and means of the augmented reality technology in the process of forming students' professional foreign language competence. Research methods. To obtain theoretical generalizations the analysis of scientific works on problems and prospects of using the augmented reality (AR) technology in the process of teaching a foreign language and on formation of the professional foreign language competence was used. AR tools (Google Lens, augmented reality browsers, WallaMe service) were mastered as part of the course “Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies” Stepik platform (https://stepik.org/course/62107/syllabus). The study involved 40 first-year students of Vyatka State University of the training program “Teacher education”. In the experiment, the Pearson χ2 (chi-square) criterion was applied. Results. In the experimental group, when studying scientific terms, vocabulary and grammar of the foreign language, for communication and cultural exchange, the methods and means of the AR technology were used. Assessment of formation of the professional foreign language competence was carried out and statistically significant differences in the qualitative changes that occurred in the pedagogical system were revealed, χ2obs. 2 > χ2crit0.05 (7,14 > 5,99). In conclusion factors that make it possible to effectively use the augmented reality technology in foreign language classes (time regulation; alternation of activities, traditional methods and means with innovative ones; inclusion of physical activity breaks and elements of neuro-gymnastics; instruction on safe networking) are summarized.

Interoperable information model for geovisualization and interaction in XR environments

ABSTRACT Since the vision of a Digital Earth (DE) was introduced in 1998, geo-browsers seem to have nearly fulfilled this vision. Virtual reality (VR) for visualizing the DE provides an immersive user experience in a mirror world. Location-based augmented reality (AR) browsers have been introduced and provide content according to user and environmental contexts. However, the content models of traditional geo-browsers and AR browsers have very limited interoperability, because they are described in application-specific formats using their domain standards. Each application is vertically integrated from content to application. The Web is an interoperable and open platform, and hundreds of millions of users are already using it to create and share content. To envision DE browsers for cross-reality (XR) environments that concurrently support geovisualization as well as VR, AR, and mixed-reality environments, we propose a DE content model based on Web standards and architecture that provides full interoperability and openness for XR browsers as a first-class citizen of the Web. This is expected to improve the DE content development efficiency by fully using the Web content development environment.

RANCANG BANGUN APLIKASI GIS PUSAT OLEH OLEH KOTA PADANG DENGAN AR BERBASIS ANDROID

Padang is the largest city in the province of West Sumatra. The city is known as a tourist town. In addition, the city is included in the strategic town traffic lane Sumatra. Many migrants are interested in visiting this city. In addition to many tourist objects there are facilities that support from the tourism such as: souvenir. However, lying scattered in various areas of the city of Padang, Make information on the attractions are still hard to come by public although migrants who visit this city.The development of communication technology which is currently developing an outstanding effect. Android based smartphone communication tools more and more popular every person in search of information about the existence of the location and the address of a place that is difficult to find when needed. To overcome this problem, the authors aim to design locator application padang souvenir with location-based services ( LBS ). By displaying a digital map using google maps features and augmented reality. Applications designed using Android development Tool, mixar, augmented reality browser, And editor Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE). While the programming language used is Java , extensible languange , hypertext preprocessor (PHP) and query structure languange (SQL).This application helps users find out information on attractions such as distance , direction , address that appears in the form of digital maps. Not only that, through augmented reality technology is pasted on android smartphone, Users can interact with the real world through the camera view to locate the attractions that are nearbyKeyword : tourism, location based service, augmented reality, android

Design and Implementation of Augmented Reality Browser for Mobile Terminal

The rapid advancement of mobile internet technology has promoted the vigorous development of Augmented Reality (AR) applications. However, the native AR application on the mobile terminal has the disadvantages of closedness and high cross-platform cost. The Web-based application has universality and good cross-platform characteristics. Using Web as the carrier of AR applications will solve the problems of the native application. However, there is a large gap between Web applications and the native applications in the performance and efficiency of the algorithm. To solve these problems, the mobile browser’s support for AR applications has been expanded in this paper. The native computing ability of the mobile phone is encapsulated into a Web-callable interface, and the hybrid rendering method is used which uses both the native and the Web to render the AR applications.

Инструменти за създаване на образователни приложения с добавена реалност

Information and communication technologies are an important part of contemporary education. Implementation of innovative technologies in education contributes to its transformation to be in line with digital learners’ needs. Among the rapidly advancing technologies in different spheres of public life is Augmented reality. It has many advantages that can provide innovative and effective means of transferring knowledge to learners. The aim of the current work is to present the approaches and tools in creating Augmented reality educational applications. The emphasis is on the Augmented reality browsers, which allows teachers to create interactive educational products without the need for special programming skills.

Seeing and knowing Titanic Belfast using augmented reality: an auto-ethnographic view

ABSTRACTThis paper brings together auto-ethnographic and participatory research to investigate how the practice of vision constructed through a locative-based augmented reality (AR) browser creates and reveals values and meanings connected to geographies of the place. Leveraging the potential of the collective cultural consciousness formed by the legacy of Titanic, the author has developed an AR browser that layers historic photographs of Titanic with the modern day view of the Belfast shipyard in which the ship was built, to investigate the narrative logic of what is seen and understood through the AR browser. This paper seeks to first show the experience of the AR construction using an authorial voice, enabling the reader to enter the subjective world of the author’s experience, and then tell of the experience using a broad framework of visual cultures discourse, thus enabling the narrative fidelity of the subjective experience to have reached beyond that of a description of what is seen and felt. Using this methodology, the paper identifies the affordances and constraints of the AR image in those situations where what is seen via AR technologies contributes to what is known of the cultural symbolism and value of the place.

Augmented reality display based on user behavior

The development and commercialization of smart glasses in recent years have made the exploration of one's surroundings with mobile augmented reality (MAR) browsers anytime and anywhere more practical. However, users often suffer from issues such as cognitive overload and inconvenient interactions when operating MAR browsers on smart glasses owing to the constraints of the screen resolution and size. To overcome these problems, this paper presents a user-behavior-driven augmented content display approach called iDisplay. First, user behaviors were modeled while the smart glasses were used. A user behavior perception algorithm that infers the current state of the user by crosschecking his/her past behavior and feature data extracted from the built-in sensors of the smart glasses was then developed. Five augmented content display patterns corresponding to the modeled user's behavior states were designed accordingly. To verify that iDisplay can be based upon the perceived user states to adaptively manage the smart glasses display, a prototype system was built to conduct a series of experiments. The experimental results show that iDisplay can accurately infer user states and manage augmented content display accordingly. A user study also shows that iDisplay can successfully reduce the user's cognitive load and split attention when searching for specific point-of-interest information while moving. Furthermore, all subjects claimed that iDisplay causes less dizziness during the experiments than the native overview + detail augmented reality interface.

Augmented Reality Browsers: A Proposal for Architectural Standardization

The technology evolution of smartphones, systems and the growing of telecommunications, allow the use of Augmented Reality in the exploration of geo-referenced information, complementing the real environment of the users with various types of content displayed on robust mobile cameras through applications called augmented reality browsers. Although this type of application is being in development and growing use by society, the technology, and especially its software architecture do not have any kind of standardization. This work presents concepts about augmented reality browsers for mobile devices. It shows the main aspects and applications of those types of reality. Besides that, the specific features of those types of architecture are discussed and compared, and new architecture, whose most relevant feature is the interoperability of applications in various platforms for mobile devices, are presented. This work has the objective to develop an architectural framework for the development of these browsers.

Next-Generation Augmented Reality Browsers: Rich, Seamless, and Adaptive

As low-level hardware will soon allow us to visualize virtual content anywhere in the real world, managing it in a more structured manner still needs to be addressed. Augmented reality (AR) browser technology is the gateway to such structured software platform and an anywhere AR user experience. AR browsers are the substitute of Web browsers in the real world, permitting overlay of interactive multimedia content on the physical world or objects they refer to. As the current generation allows us to barely see floating virtual items in the physical world, a tighter coupling with our reality has not yet been explored. This paper presents our recent effort to create rich, seamless, and adaptive AR browsers. We discuss major challenges in the area and present an agenda on future research directions for an everyday augmented world.

Red Land/Black Land

AbstractWhile digital games are used for health intervention, language training, and science learning, there are few instances of games being used to teach archaeology. This is a missed opportunity, as narratives of exploration and discovery make archaeology well suited to digital games. This article discusses Red Land/Black Land, a prototype Civilization V mod (modification of an existing game) that allows players to explore both the process of cultural change in ancient Egypt and the construction of archaeological knowledge about ancient Egypt. As a case study of scholarly game design, the article explores the project’s development. Included is a discussion of play mechanics, the merits and process of modding, and the resources required to build games in academic environments. The article also discusses preliminary efforts to test the game in an undergraduate classroom. Ultimately, the article argues that digital games are powerful tools for communicating archaeology. Instead of falling under the glamour of commercial games, however, scholars should adopt cost effective approaches to game design, looking to mobile play, alternate reality games, modding, and browser based games to realize their vision. The article also argues that the actual process of designing a game is an excellent tool to teach archaeology.

The city as computer [Technically Speaking

In his essay "Walking in the City," the French scholar Michel de Certeau talks about the "invisible identities of the visible." He is talking specifically about the memories and personal narratives associated with a location. Until recently, this information was only accessible one-to-one-that is, by talking to people who had knowledge of a place. . But what if that data became one-to-many, or even many-to-many, and easily accessible via some sort of street-level interface that could be accessed manually, or wirelessly using a smartphone? This is essentially the idea behind urban computing, where the city itself becomes a kind of distributed computer. The pedestrian is the moving cursor; neighborhoods, buildings, and street objects become the interface; and the smartphone is used to "click" or "tap" that interface. In the same way that a computer, mouse, and interface are required to operate a Web browser to surf sites, the equivalent components of street computing create a reality browser that enables the city dweller to "surf" urban objects. On a broader level, the collection, storage, and distribution of the data related to a city and its objects is known as urban informatics ( described by one technologist as "a city that talks back to you"). . Smartphone in hand, what can the modern-day flaneur expect to find in this newly digitized urban environment? First, thanks to the prevalence of GPS data, wayfinding is giving way (so to speak) to wayshowing, interfaces that provide specific directions from here to there, and to social navigation, getting around with the help of others (avoiding traffic, for example) and then checking in with your friends when you get there. Similarly, our urban gadabout might take advantage of use-someplace technologies such as augmented reality, where physical space is overlaid with virtual data. A good example is Streetmuseum, a Museum of London app that can overlay an archive photo of a street scene onto the same scene as shown through your smartphone's camera. Beyond augmented reality is amplified reality, where extra data is built into an object from the get-go. For example, the embedding of radio-frequency identification or near-field communication technologies in street objects enables the creation of locative media (also called location- based media). These situated technologies contain data about a specific location, which is then beamed to devices as they come within range, an exchange known as a situated interaction. An example is the sound garden, where designers assign sounds to public places, which users can then listen to using Wi-Fi-enabled devices.

Maps as Deep: Reading the Code of Location-Based Social Networks

Location-based services comprise the fastest growing sector in web technology business [1, p. 9]. These services, be they location-based social networks, satellite navigation devices in cars, or augmented reality browsers as applications on mobile phones, have opened questions about their mediating effects on the awareness of location and engagement with location for users. McCulloch [2] argues that location-based services are a channel for specialized information, in that the information reaching users is now about where they are, rather than decontextualized information with no relevance to the location of the user. Analyses of the impact of location-based services have been myriad in consideration [3], but some major areas of research have emerged. Wilken [3] identifies the major themes as research directed towards analyzing how locative technologies mediate the relationship between technology use and physical or digital spaces [4]-[12], discussions of power and politics in location-based services [13], and assessments and discussions on the nature of the representation of space that emerge through locative media [14], [15]. In addition, the area of privacy has been a major area of interest [16]-[19].

Objects Tracking from Natural Features in Mobile Augmented Reality

Real world objects are recognized by tracking less and tracking based techniques. Mobile augmented reality browsers are tracking less systems, which acquires location data using global positioning system and provide information in the form of maps or web links. Tracking based techniques recognize objects through markers or directly real world objects without markers. Marker based systems actually track the markers not the real objects and therefore, these approaches hides the reality. Marker- less (direct real object tracking) systems use client-server architecture. However, these are affected by network latency. The Smartphone is capable to recognize and track real world objects without any server and marker. It can guide the users about their location and also provide information in a convenient way. Therefore, an improved algorithm for tracking real world objects through natural features was formulated. The modified version of speed up robust features (SURF) was used for features extraction from live mobile camera image and recognition. The pose matrix from extracted features was calculated by Homography. The adapted algorithm was tested in a mobile AR-prototype application using iPhone. It was found from the results that the formulated algorithm recognized and tracked the real world objects from natural features in speedy, easy and convenient way