Introduction to Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality (AR) is about overlaying pieces of a virtual world over the real world (in contrast to Virtual Reality (VR) that is about replacing the real world with a virtual one). On mobile devices, this simply means enhancing what you can see through the device’s camera with multimedia content (e.g. you can point your camera at a movie poster and watch its trailer, or you can point it at a star in the sky and learn its name).

Image: www.arlab.com accessed 24/03/2016 11:27am

This blog will follow the experimentation of a series of augmented reality programs to create and generate a display a animation/co-choreographed video within the Plotemi VIVID 2016
Time frame 2 months. To be completed by the end of May, tested and accessibly by the public via an app download.
I will trouble shoot with a number of augmented reality programs, compare their applicability and how they capability, the efficiency for cost and user-friendliness.
The main focus will be for the Augmented reality to perform Geolocation. This is taking in a longitude and latitude values as stimulus for the projection, rather than a conventional 'tag' method for displaying imagery.

Check out this video for a great explanation about Augmented Reality if your having further trouble grasping the concepts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddyUp26qvhw

Abbreviations definitions

Geo Caching: Grabbing the coordinates of a particular place which is unique worldwide and using that location as a proximity meter for projecting Augmented Reality.

POIs: A point of interest,is a specific point location that someone may find useful or interesting.

AR: Augmented Reality, adding virtual projections to an existing world view. 

GL: Geolocation, google maps location based and geolocation are used interchangeably. 

LB: Location Based.

API: API is an interface that allows software programs to interact with each other

SDK: is a set of tools that can be used to develop software applications targeting a specific platform. They often hold a number of API's but not all API's have SDK's.

These terms are used interchnagably throughout this blog.