Augmented Reality - WINLAB Summer 2016

Introduction

Our mission is to create an augmented reality application using current virtual reality technologies. Virtual reality replaces our world with a digital one completely while augmented reality adds digital objects to our real world. At first glance, it may seem virtual reality is harder to achieve but this isn't so. Most of the devices that are capable of altered reality are only able to achieve virtual reality at an acceptable degree. The HoloLens, which is designed for augmented reality, is very expensive when compared to its virtual reality counter parts because of the external information about the user's environment it has to collect.

Our goal is to mount two wide angle cameras to the front of the Vive and feed the streams to the left and right eyes. The two cameras would allow for stereoscopic vision. We also want to be able to interact with the augmented reality objects using the Leap Motion Controller.

Hardware Platform

We will be using the HTC Vive, the Vive Lighthouse and the Leap Motion controllers in addition to custom built mounts and webcams for stereoscopic vision. ​https://www.amazon.com/Genius-120-degree-Conference-Webcam-WideCam/dp/B0080CE5M4

Software Platform

Our application will be running on the Unity3D engine with the SteamVR and ARToolkit.

Weekly Slides

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