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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