Seeing Through Augmented Reality

Talk
Prof. Steven Feiner
Columbia University
Time: 
10.24.2014 11:00 to 12:00
Location: 

CSI Room 2117

Researchers have been actively exploring Augmented Reality (AR) for over 45 years, first in the lab and later in the streets. What can AR make possible by interactively overlaying virtual media on our experience of the physical world? I will try to answer this question by sharing some of my thoughts about where AR is now, and where it might be headed in the future. I will illustrate the talk with examples, ranging from assisting users in performing complex physical tasks, such as equipment maintenance and repair, to creating hybrid user interfaces that combine tracked see-through head-worn displays with tabletop and handheld displays to visualize urban information.