What is Augmented Reality and Why it emerges? - Sauli Kiviranta

This lecture introduces the “Kiviranta Framework“ for supporting design of Augmented Reality systems. The essence of the framework is that AR has to support one or several reasoning modalities: concrete, abstract, and/or transformational. The purpose of this framework is to help Augmented Reality adopters to gain a more structured understanding of the problems they are solving and what kind of value proposition their system has. In the recent Augmented World Expo 2013, many of the key players in AR field debated whether Google Glass is AR solution at all, or if Meta 1 is the true AR system. This debate also revolved around work conducted by Steve Mann on the perceptual enhancements. Following the framework, these AR systems have simply different emphasis on supporting “abstract“, “concrete“ or “transformational“ reasoning modalities respectively. In other words, they are complementary rather than competitive or somehow mutu