Abstract:
Industrial uses of Augmented Reality (AR) are growing, however their uses are
consistently fashioned with an emphasis on consumption, delivering additional
information to the worker to assist them in the completion of their job. A
promising alternative is to allow user data creation during the actual
process by the worker performing their duties. This not only allows spatially
located annotations to be produced, it also allows an AR scene to be
developed in-situ and in real-time. Tangible markers offer a physical
interface while also creating physical containers to allow for fluent
interactions. This form factor allows both attached and detached annotations,
whilst allowing the creation of an AR scene during the process. This
annotated scene will allow asynchronous collaboration to be conducted between
multiple stakeholders, both locally and remotely. In this paper we discuss
our reasoning behind such an approach, and present the current work on our
prototype created to test and validate our proposition.
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