AntarcticAR: An Outdoor AR Experience of a Virtual Tour to Antarctica

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Published in:2013 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality - Arts, Media, and Humanities (ISMAR-AMH)
Main Authors: Lee, G.A., Duenser, A., Nassani, A., Billinghurst, M.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: University of Canterbury. Human Interface Technology Laboratory 2013
Subjects:
outdoor augmented reality
virtual tour
mobile application
location-based system
Field of Research::08 - Information and Computing Sciences::0801 - Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing::080111 - Virtual Reality and Related Simulation
Fields of Research::46 - Information and computing sciences::4606 - Distributed computing and systems software::460608 - Mobile computing
South Pole
Antarc*
Antarctica
South pole
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9205
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR-AMH.2013.6671264
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Summary:“© 2013 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.” In this paper we introduce AntarcticAR, a mobile outdoor Augmented Reality (AR) application that provides a virtual tour of Antarctica. Outdoor AR interfaces have often been used as a navigational tool, providing information related to the real world environment where the user is located in. In contrast, this research explores using outdoor AR to provide a virtual tour that has little relationship with the user’s real environment. The AntarcticAR application allows people to virtually visit places of interest in Antarctica or follow historic expeditions to the South Pole. The paper describes the design and implementation of the application, and reports on a user study with members of the public. Users felt that the application provided a compelling virtual tour, and that the outdoor AR technology especially enriched the experience.

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