A survey of mobile and wireless technologies for augmented reality systems
Computer Animation and Virtual WorldsPublished 1 February 2008Open access
George Papagiannakis, Gurminder Singh, Nadia Magnenat‐Thalmann
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A survey of different mobile and wireless technologies and how they have impact AR is provided so that it becomes easier to understand the state of art and to help identify new directions of research.
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Abstract Recent advances in hardware and software for mobile computing have enabled a new breed of mobile augmented reality (AR) systems and applications. A new breed of computing called ‘augmented ubiquitous computing’ has resulted from the convergence of wearable computing, wireless networking, and mobile AR interfaces. In this paper, we provide a survey of different mobile and wireless technologies and how they have impact AR. Our goal is to place them into different categories so that it becomes easier to understand the state of art and to help identify new directions of research. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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