A semantically enriched augmented reality browser

Abstract

Owing to the remarkable advancement of smartphones, Augmented Reality applications have become part of everyday life. Augmented Reality browsers are the most commonly used among these applications. The users can search and display interesting places from the physical environment surrounding them by means of these browsers. Some of the most popular AR browsers use only one data source and the openly available datasets are not used. In contrast, the main objective of Linked Open Data community project is to link knowledge from different data sources. This pursuit makes it easier to retrieval information, among others. In this paper, an Augmented Reality browser was presented. Information derived from Linked Open Data was used by the browser as data source. Due to this, the system is able to handle more data sources. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.