Augmented reality for several people

Augmented reality can be an exciting and exciting experience, but much more interesting if a friend is involved with you.

Researchers at Microsoft's Jaron Lanier lab are experimenting with multi-player augmented reality. The result of their work can change how this technology is used and sold. Lanier was a pioneer of virtual and augmented reality in the 80s.

Microsoft has a commercial augmented reality product called HoloLens . Lanier emphasizes that his experiments are not related to HoloLens and do not reflect the future development of this product.

Augmented reality for a few people is a really great idea. Many players and technology enthusiasts have long been waiting for such a thing. In addition to games, there is hope that someday virtual and augmented reality will prove its worth for communications, collaboration and new interfaces for accessing and processing information.

The Lanier project is called Comradre. Students-interns have several projects when people simultaneously interact with one virtual object. These head-mounted displays work on smartphones or laptops, and head movements are monitored by external sensors.



Trainee students experiment with various practical applications based on the platform. This is a physical interaction with virtual objects, interaction with animations for children, visualization of mathematical formulas. One system provides for the detection of sound waves and their visualization.

Virtual and augmented reality is now very intensively studied by academic researchers and commercial companies, writes MIT Technology Review. Technology companies Facebook, Google, and Sony are developing virtual reality helmets and virtual reality software.

Creating a workable augmented reality technology for several people is not an easy task. It is necessary to solve the problem of accurately tracking the movement of each person participating in the action. Microsoft seems to be leading the way in researching this topic with Jaron Lanier's experiments.