Sony develops 'SmartAR' Integrated Augmented Reality technology
Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 09:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Sony has developed integrated Augmented Reality (hereafter referred to as AR) technology called as Smart AR. When capturing visuals through a camera on a device such as a smartphone, the technology enables additional information to be displayed on the devices screens such as virtual objects, or images and texts that cannot be identified by visual perception alone. The technology employs the markerless approach, forgoing any requirement for special markers such as 2D barcodes. The object captured by the camera is quickly recognized and can be tracked at high-speed along with the movement of the camera, as it is displayed over the actual 3D space.