Because in augmented reality environments visitors can see physical world, virtual objects and each other, several visitors can easily join around the mixing table and jam together, passing musical sequences to each other in the same manner in which we would pass everyday objects. The music in a sense becomes a physical, tangible object, something we can touch and see as part of our physical environment. Go to the Augmented Groove web page for more information on the project. A Magic Book looks like a regular storybook with colorful pages and simple text. By simply touching the corner of the page, readers can also fly into the immersive VR world and freely explore the scene.
Several readers can gather around a single Magic Book and experience it together.
Wearing HMDs, each reader can view AR scenes from their own perspective or fly into the immersive world and see each other represented as avatars in the same virtual scene. Readers that remain in the AR setting have a God s eye view of their fellow readers as miniature avatars in the virtual scene before them. AR Toolkit Publications AR Toolkit ARtoolKit is an open source software library that has been used in Shared Space projects. The toollkit can be used to calculate camera position and orientation relative to physical markers in real time. This enables the easy development of a wide range of augmented reality applications.