Augmented reality

Examples of important potential uses of AR in surgery include the following  

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In such cases, virtual environments are substituted for by virtual reaMty models. These models provide virtual reality by mimicking the supposed environment but not copying it. However, in some apphcations a mix of virtual copies and virtual models is needed. In augmented reality, transmitted information about the attributes of the considered real environment is used together with model parameters about a model environment to build up a virtual construct for the supposed environment. 

Virtual constructs are essential tools in a number of applications utilizing the concept of telepresence and/or teleimmersion by users of networked computers. Teleinstruction, telemedicine, and different types of teleworking are examples of how the development of networked communication and collaboration leads to an increasing number of applications using virtual and augmented reality. 

Multimedia transmission is gradually entering practically all applications, together with exploitation of the above-mentioned techniques of telepresence and teleimmersion (these techniques are characterized by combining distant access with virtual reality and augmented reality concepts see Section 2). 

Augmented Langrangian methods, 2561-2562 Augmented reality (AR), 235, 251, 2501 Aurum Software, 95 Australia, quality standards in, 1968 Authentication protocol, 733, 734 Authority ... 

Chapter 16 looks at applications for parametric sound synthesis, including user-interfaces, data sonification, digital Foley, virtual reality, augmented reality, computer music, interactive art, animation, and gaming. The chapter concludes with thoughts on the future of parametric digital sound synthesis. 

Augmented reality is a form of mixed reality where the live view of a real-world environment is enhanced by virtual (interactive) overlay techniques. The original publication that introduced the term was stated as the opposite of VR use computers to augment objects in the real world instead of using computers to enclose people in an artificial world (Wellner et al. 1993). 

The virtuality continuum proposed by Milgram states that augmented reality is just one expression of a mixed reality, which combines real and virtual (Milgram and Kishino 1994). 

An augmented reality system has to fulfill three requirements (Azuma 1997) ... 

Augmented reality (AR) is a variation on virtual reality (VR). Unlike VR, the user is with AR not completely immersed in a virtual environment. The characteristic of AR is that the user can see the real world, as it is at that moment, with virtual objects projected on or combined with it. AR is used in situations in which the user must be able to relate virtual information to the real situation. Both real and virtual information complement each other therefore, we can say that AR supplements reality, rather than completely replacing it... 

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Degree of embedding the physical reality Interactions take place in both the real and the virtual world, VR can be seen as a form of mixed reality (as Augmented Reality). 

Virtual Reality has been widely used in manufacturing systems simulation, Rubio [9], Sanz-Lobera [10] or Kadir et al [11], but it has not been employed in combination with real elements. In this way. Augmented Reality (AR) also combines real and virtual elements in manufacturing simulations. Nee et al [12], but in AR real and virtual elements develop actions of different nature and works with elements whose behavior is clearly different. In a hybrid FMS, real and virtual elements of the same nature co-exist and work together. 

FIGURE 29.17 Augmented reality CIS system for brain tumor surgery. The tumor image (round area) and brain structure (below tumor image) are projected directly on the patient s skull. (Photo courtesy of Ron Kikinis.)... 

The combination of DMU data with real life imagery captured in real time, live with video cameras produce an augmented reality (AR) or mixed reality (MR). AR/MR tools replace computer algorithms for geometry positioning, e.g. in... 

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Verlinden J, Horvath I, Nam T-J (2009) Recording augmented reality experiences to capture design reviews. Int J Interact Des Manuf 3 189-200... 

Djajadiningrat JP, Overbeeke CJ, Wensveen SAG (2000) Augmenting fiin and beauty a pamphlet. Paper presented at the DARE 2000 designing augmented reality environments, Helsingor, 12-14 Apr... 

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