How To Think About Augmented Reality

ARIA - AR in Action - MIT Media Lab - January 2018 - Invited talk

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1. HOW TO THINK ABOUT AUGMENTED REALITY DOUGLASS TURNER - ELASTIC IMAGE SOFTWARE douglass.turner@gmail.com @dugla 781 775 3708
2. AR Orthodoxy
3. Reality is 3D. Associated descriptive information is trapped in bad old 2D on pages and screens. This disconnect inhibits our decision making ability. AR to the rescue: superimpose 2D descriptive information atop 3D context. Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann - HBR November/December 2017
4. We are in the “Bear riding a unicycle” phase of AR
6. AR Pseudo Interfaces
9. AR Challenges
10. • Standing and waving outstretched arms is tiring • It is very hard to point or gaze with accuracy, repeatability, and granularity. • low resolution + low contrast ratio means poor legibility
11. • Occlusion due to 3D projection • Lack of physical constraints • Pointing and gazing is a very low bandwidth form interaction. Similar to voice input.
13. The problem with presence is you have to be present.
14. AR Web Synchronous Asynchronous Here - Now Anywhere/Nowhere - Whenever/Never
15. AR BIG Challenges AR lacks the necessary infrastructure. Matt Miesnieks describes this as AR Cloud. The buildout is similar in scale to what is needed for autonomous vehicle.
16. AR BIG Challenges AR lacks a viable user interaction model
17. The AR Killer App? Google Maps hands down.
18. The Supremacy of the Eye-Brain Super Computer
21. We can use 3D to trade time for space
28. We have been trained since childhood to easily comprehend 3D from a wide range of styles and representations.
29. Take Aways
30. Keep an open mind. Resist orthodoxy. Don’t fall for the “one true visualization to rule them all” tendency. There is none. AR is one of many approaches to extracting meaning from reality. Begin to think about how AR integrates into or extends pre-existing workflows and toolchains.
31. THANK YOU DOUGLASS TURNER - ELASTIC IMAGE SOFTWARE douglass.turner@gmail.com @dugla 781 775 3708