TREC: platform-neutral input for mobile augmented reality applications

  • Authors:
  • Jason Kurczak;T.C. Nicholas Graham

  • Affiliations:
  • Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada;Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Development of Augmented Reality (AR) applications can be time consuming due to the effort required in accessing sensors for location and orientation tracking data. In this pa- per, we introduce the TREC framework, designed to handle sensor input and make AR development easier. It does this in three ways. First, TREC generates a high-level abstraction of user location and orientation, so that low-level sensor data need not be seen directly. TREC also automatically uses the best available sensors and fusion algorithms so that complex configuration is unnecessary. Finally, TREC enables exten- sions of the framework to add support for new devices or customized sensor fusion algorithms.