Jay David Bolter [1.8M]
  Experience-based Augmented Reality(AR)has many compelling applications. Exciting possibilities arise wherever AR can be used to leverage the aura of a particular location (such as an historic building, battlefield, or monument). In these cases the DART system can enhance the experience of visiting the site by adding a dramatic or narrative dimension.

Application areas include: 1) informal educational experiences, in which the user visits a site of cultural significance and 2) entertaining experiences and games that can be staged in a fictional space.

Our current prototype experiences

Four Angry Men: a remediation of the classic teleplay and film Twelve Angry Men.

Alice’s Adventure’s in New Media: based on the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party in Alice in Wonderland.

Oakland Cemetery: an audio (and eventually video) augmented visit to the Oakland Cemetery (the oldest and most historically significant cemetery in Atlanta).

Suggested (not yet prototyped) experiences

A simulation of schizophrenia: to give a user a feeling of has already been done in VR, but AR could be more compelling by mixing imagined voices and figures into the user’s physical world.

The Potsdam Conference: a reenactment of the meeting of Truman, Churchill, and Stalin that helped to determine the post-WW2 fate of Europe. (Many other historical reenactments are possible.)

Other possible application areas

Digital art installations and performances: In addition to dramatic scenes and reenactments, DART can be used to prototype or stage installations that are not story-based. DART allows the designer to insert 3D objects as well as music or sound into the user’s environment. Various kinds of sensors could also be programmed into the environment for mixed-reality installations.

Task-based AR: DART can also be used for prototyping or implementing “practical” AR applications, such as equipment repair, situation-based training, and augmented tourism.

VR and desktop-based experiences: DART can also create prototypes for virtual reality and for desktop presentations.



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