{"id":1335,"date":"2009-11-14T15:54:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T15:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2010-03-22T23:22:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:22:23","slug":"my-view-of-augmented-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1335","title":{"rendered":"My View on Augmented Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My view of Augmented Reality is that it is basically adding to the real world what you might find useful. I believe that the best way to describe it is to say this:<br \/>\nWhen using a mobile device or computer it has to have a video camera to display extra content on top of it, like layers in Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>The Nearest Tube App for the iPhone is an excellent example of what I think Augmented Reality is, this is also one of the things that got me interested into augmented reality in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acrossair.com\/apps_nearesttube.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.acrossair.com\/apps_nearesttube.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Definition of Augmented Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u275d There are two commonly accepted definitions of Augmented Reality  today. One was given by Ronald Azuma in 1997. Azuma&#8217;s definition says that Augmented Reality<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>combines real and virtual<\/li>\n<li>is interactive in real time<\/li>\n<li>is registered in 3D \u275e<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Extract from Wiki: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Augmented_reality\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Augmented_reality<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My view of Augmented Reality is that it is basically adding to the real world what you might find useful. I believe that the best way to describe it is to say this: When using a mobile device or computer it has to have a video camera to display extra content on top of it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,133],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.benmgiles.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}