HandsOnVideo: Towards a Gesture based Mobile AR System for Remote Collaboration

Abstract

Augmented reality (AR) is a direct or indirect view of real world scenes in which physical objects are annotated with, or overlaid by computer generated digital information. The past two decades have seen a fast growing body of research and development dedicated to techniques and technologies for AR. In particular, due to the recent advances in mobile devices and networking technologies, the use of mobile collaborative augmented reality (MCAR) has expanded rapidly. Although there is still a long way for MCAR systems to become commonplace, successful applications have been developed in a range of fields, for example computer-supported collaborative learning, entertainment, tourism and collaborative architectural design. An overview of recent trends and developments in this rapidly advancing technology is needed. This book is set out to: Provide a historical overview of previous MCAR systems Present case studies of latest developments in current MCAR systems Cover latest technologies and system architectures used in MCAR systems This book includes 13 chapters. The first two chapters of this book are invited contributions from established researchers in the field. The remaining chapters are extended versions of papers presented in the 2010 international workshop on mobile collaborative augmented reality (MCAR 2010). We briefly introduce these chapters as follows.