Mobile AR Setup

Notes regarding the mobile AR setup.

Improve ...

... quality of interaction

This targets mostly the calibration and registration issues of the whole setup. I want to take the following steps to improve that.

• use more automated calibration routines :
  • calibration for the glove offset using artoolkit for tracking of gloves (done by Flo)
  • calibration for virtual camera offset using artoolkit (done by Flo)
  • calibration of orientation tracker - transform coordinate system + on the fly offset (like Joe did)
• calibrate HMD with a static calibration setup like a wall pattern etc.
• calibrate all the tracking cameras using artoolkit calibration

... performance

Can we improve the performance ? Well we should try... some points to do that :

• add support for non RGB formats to ARToolKit WDM driver. However let the DirectShow graph do the transformation to RGB.
• opentracker event based model could reduce amount of time spend in the opentracker just checking modules. However, I doubt this has a large impact anyway.

... demonstrations

The following applications are currently available, developed or planned.

• AEKI - maintenance example application
• signpost - wide range location based application
• arlibrary - close range location based application
• fingerfarben - collaborative glove application