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Coral Lipovetsky

Four to Five Years: Augmented Reality « 2010 Horizon Report: The K12 Edition - 1 views

  • Now, the technologies that make augmented reality possible are powerful and compact enough to deliver AR experiences to personal computers and mobile devices.
  • Wireless applications
  • The camera and screen embedded in smart phones and other mobile devices now serve as the means to combine real world data with virtual data; using GPS capability, image recognition, and a compass, AR applications can pinpoint where the mobile’s camera is pointing and overlay relevant information at appropriate points on the screen.
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  • eventh- and eighth-grade students created AR costumes for characters
  • ugmented reality has strong potential to provide both powerful, contextual, in situ
  • Zooburst (http://www.zooburst.com) is an authoring tool that allows students to create their own augmented reality storybooks. The German company Metaio (http://www.metaio.com/demo) is developing books that include AR elements, such as globes that pop up on the pages of a book about the earth.
  • Market projections for augmented reality on mobile devices predict revenues of $2 million in 2010, rising to several hundred million by 2014 (
  • Layar (http://layar.com) has been a leader in this space with AR applications for Android and iPhones. Layar’s mobile application features content layers that may include
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