An Augmented Reality Museum Guide

Abstract

Recent years have seen advances in many enabling Augmented Reality technologies. Furthermore, much research has been carried out on how Augmented Reality can be used to enhance existing applications. This paper describes our experiences with an AR-museum guide that combines some of the latest technologies. Amongst other technologies, markerless tracking, hybrid tracking, and an Ultra-Mobile-PC were used. Like existing audio guides, the AR-guide can be used by any museum visitor, during a six-month exhibition on Islamic art. We provide a detailed description of the museum’s motivation for using AR, of our experiences in developing the system, and the initial results of user surveys. Taking this information into account, we can derive possible system improvements.

Keywords: augmented reality, mobile computing, multimedia in the museum.

T. Miyashita , P. Meier , T. Tachikawa , S. Orlic , T. Eble , V. Scholz , A. Gapel , O. Gerl , S. Arnaudov , S. Lieberknecht, An Augmented Reality museum guide, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, p.103-106, September 15-18, 2008