Extending an Existing VR Software Framework to support AR Applications - With an Example from Physics Classes
- We present our approach to extend a Virtual Reality software framework towards the use for Augmented Reality applications. Although VR and AR applications have very similar requirements in terms of abstract components (like 6DOF input, stereoscopic output, simulation engines), the requirements in terms of hardware and software vary considerably. In this article we would like to share the experience gained from adapting our VR software framework for AR applications. We will address design issues for this task. The result is a VR/AR basic software that allows us to implement interactive applications without fixing their type (VR or AR) beforehand. Switching from VR to AR is a matter of changing the configuration file of the application. We also give an example of the use of the extended framework: Augmenting the magnetic field of bar magnets in physics classes. We describe the setup of the system and the real-time calculation of the magnetic field, using a GPU.
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| Document Type: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
| Author: | Florian Mannuß, Florian Bingel, André Hinkenjann |
| Parent Title (English): | SBC Journal on 3D Interactive Systems |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| First Page: | 27 |
| Last Page: | 36 |
| ISSN: | 2236-3297 |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-9176 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5753/jis.2012.613 |
| Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
| Date of first publication: | 2013/01/23 |
| Copyright: | JIS is free of charges for both authors and readers, and all papers published by JIS follow the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. |
| Note: | Special Issue of the XIV Symposium on Virtual and Augmented Reality |
| Keywords: | Augmented Reality; Electromagnetic Fields; Software Architecture; Software Framework; Virtual Reality |
| Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Informatik |
| Institute of Visual Computing (IVC) | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik |
| Entry in this database: | 2015/04/02 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
