On-board and mobile augmented reality
Most significant innovations. ICT and electronics

Bogdan STANCIULESCU, Teacher-Researcher, Robotics Centre, École des mines – ParisTech, Paris

The massive arrival of mobile devices: smartphones, tablets, connected glasses and other gadgets equipped with vision and location sensors, combined with substantial computing power, is driving application development towards a more intelligent understanding of one's immediate environment. These technological and algorithmic advances have made mobile and embedded augmented reality applications possible. Precise localization of the observer and his relative position in relation to the environment enable synthetic information to be merged with the real world, as perceived by the user.

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