Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Augmented reality: a new approach to learning (27 Feb 2006) Augmented reality (AR) is a new and unfamiliar concept to most of us, but one which you can expect to hear a lot more of in coming months. AR enables users to handle, and interact with, virtual 3D objects in real time - not by using a mouse, keyboard or joystick but as if they were holding them in their hand. All users need is a PC, the AR software and a webcam. The AR software takes a webcam picture and applies a pattern recognition process. This is trained to find a special grid pattern that a user can hold in their hand. The result is that users see themselves on the screen, holding and moving 3D objects. With the collaboration of an open source community called AR Toolkit, Adrian Woolard and his team at the BBC have been exploring the technology's potential in broadcasting, and are now looking at its possible uses in the classroom. They have recently undertaken two projects with teachers and pupils in schools to find out if their ideas bear fruit in practice. Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/art72.htm Read 150 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Derek Featherstone          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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