Augmented Reality

I developed and taught this course on augmented reality. It covers topics such as tracking, visual coherence, interaction, and applications. Unity and Vuforia Engine are used for programming projects. I emphasize hands-on work, and have the students work during class to complete lab assignments, usually one per week. Students also do more involved programming assignments, and an independent final project of their own choosing.

Topics

• Introduction to augmented reality, Unity, and Vuforia

• Displays

• Image targets and transformations

• Tracking

• Sounds, animations

• Visual coherence: lighting, shadows, occlusions

• Situated visualization

• Interaction techniques

• Physics

• Plane finding

• Modeling

Examples

Coherent Rendering

This shows correct occlusions and shadows between real and virtual objects.

Physics

This app allows the user to manipulate virtual objects, and have the virtual objects physically interact with each other and with real objects.

Interaction

This app demonstrates annotating (or "tagging") an object with pointers and labels.