Promet Source's March webinar on Augmented Reality. The presentation includes real world examples of Augmented Reality applications and games. The presentation also includes Promet's CTAR Augmented Reality application.
4. About Promet
• 2003 Founded
• 2008 focus on Drupal CMS
• 2009 Mobile development
• Faces of Promet today:
5. Our Solutions
Promet Solutions Inc.
Promet Source
- Open source web development
- Drupal-based websites, products, and applications
Promet Support
- Drupal Managed Services
- Drupal DevOps consulting
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- Enterprise mobile business solutions
- Drupal integration with mobile
6. Awards and Press
CMS Expo Spotlight Awards
• 2012 Best Drupal CMS App for Commerce
• 2012 Best Drupal Mobile CMS App
Notable Press Mentions
• Wireless Week - Promet iPhone Madison app
• Cult of Mac – ipad Dispatch system
50+ Drupal sponsorships, speaking
sessions and attending
7. What is Augmented Reality?
• AR is a digital overlay of information over a live camera view
of the real world
• Enhances reality with digital information about the images that appear
on the screen
• AR is frequently used due to the development of camera
recognition software
• Glasses
• Virtual retina displays
• Camera phones
14. Augmented Reality Market
• Total value of AR mobile market in 2009 was $130,000
• AR capable smartphones increased from 8 million in 2009 to
more than 100 million in 2010
• Late 2010 saw exponential growth from 2009
•Value in 2010 was $1.5 million
•Forecasts for 2015 expect $1.5 billion
•In the next five years expected to grow
at an average of 239% per year
15. Outlook on Augmented Reality
• Analysts predict every smart phone will feature an
augmented reality application by 2014
• Augmented Reality can generate $1.5 billion by 2015
• Other analysts predict $5.1 billion by 2016
• Future developments: using cloud data to enhance the
information in AR
• Expected to rise from 0.1% of the
market to 1.0% of the market in the
next five years
16. AR Growth by App Category
Source: Juniper Research
19. History of Augmented Reality
• One of the first augmented reality systems was created in
1992
• Virtual Fixtures was developed at the U.S. Air Force Research
laboratory
• First Augmented Reality mobile device debuted in 2008
• Wikitude AR Travel Guide launched on the T-Mobile G1 Android phone
• Video games featured Augmented Reality cards to play with
the device camera
• Nintendo 3DS and Playstation Vita feature this application
• Recently gained popularity in smart phones
20. Phone Requirements
• A way to determine location
• Phone provides that through GPS and an internal compass
• iPhone has gyroscopes
• A method of downloading data
• Provided through mobile broadband connection
• Powerful graphics processing capabilities
• Camera phone in the case of smartphones
• A processor and display
21. Dataset Requirements
• Location-based
• Data points need to be tied to a specific location
• User interest in daily life
• Needs to be a data set that users would be interested in looking up
• Publicly available data
• Or privately held data that can be shared with Promet
• Data needs to be accessible online
22. Case Study: Augmented Reality and CTAR
Challenge
• Needed a way to consolidate CTA info and
display it in relation to its surroundings
• Augmented Reality software was traditionally
used in video games
• Had to account for over 30,000 bus stops, as
well as train lines
• Needed to show whether the bus of train was
Northbound or Southbound
23. Case Study: Augmented Reality and CTAR
Approach
• Used program to determine coordinates
and orientation of phone
• App uses floating point arithmetic to
compare the location of the user with the
location of each bus stop
• Separated bus and train information into
separate tables to prevent slowdowns
24. Case Study: Augmented Reality and CTAR
Results
• Each stop box displays:
• Distance to the station
• Station's name
• Color of lines passing through
• ETAs of trains in all directions
• App allows you to tap whichever line you
are interested in within a station
25. Case Study: Augmented Reality and CTAR
How the CTAR works
• CTAR uses the GPS and Compass to provide and accurate
location of the phone and where it is pointed
• Accelerometer used to determine whether the phone is tilted
at a specific angle
• CTAR downloads location and arrival times from Chicago
Transit Authority in real time
• Needs to sort through data tables to retrieve names, id and geo-
coordinates
• Displays the nearest stop and arrival time
26. Augmented Reality Capabilities
• Public Transportation
• Tracking the nearest train and buses and the frequency they are coming in
• College Campus Tours
• Allow users to point their phones at campus buildings and conduct a self-guided
tour
• Museum Guides
• Allow users to gain background information about a piece of art by pointing your
phone
• Restaurant Guides
• Find the best restaurants and ratings nearby
• Real Estate
• Look at houses that are sale in a neighborhood with your mobile phone
27. Augmented Reality Capabilities
• Architecture Tours
• Learn about the history of each building by merely pointing your phone
• Commercial Tourism
• Explore a city’s most famous attractions with your phone
• Meetups/Conferences
• Find the nearest conference in a city block
• Concerts
• Check out the concerts in your neighborhood by pointing your phone
28. Augmented Reality USA
• What it does: Augmented Reality USA is used to find points of interest
in whatever city you're in throughout the US. You can find anything
from a Taco Bell to a Wi-Fi hotspot or Subway station.
• City: All US Cities
• Cost: $0.99
29. iParking- Find My Car
• What it does: Record your cars location when you park and it will save
the location and help you find your car when you return.
• City: Anywhere
• Cost: FREE
30. Wikitude
• What it does: When you hold up your phones you can see Yelp
reviews of any location around you and tweets from nearby. In
addition you can pull up Wikipedia articles about certain locations.
• City:
• Cost: Free
31. TripAdvisor LiveView
• What it does: Use the app to filter and find hotels, restaurants and
points of interest, and the AR tab places search results on the screen.
• City: US Cities
• Cost: Free
32. Layar: ArchINFORM
• What it does: It's a huge database of
interesting architectural works, existing and
yet-to-be-built, that you can search for with
architect names and/or keywords.Within the 3D
layer, there’s an AR-view perspective map and
a walkable pedestrian route can be shown for
every listed piece of architecture within the
specified neighborhood.
• City: US and International Cities
• Cost: Free
33. Google Goggles in Google Mobile
• What it does: Take a picture of famous paintings, wine labels or bar
codes among other things and Google Goggles will return information
on the image captured. Of most practical use is the translation
function. Photograph text (for example a menu item) in
English, French, German, Italian or Spanish and have it translated
into one of those other languages.
• City: Most US Cities
• Cost: Free
34. Case Study: AR and Grinnell College
Challenge – College Campus Tour
• Compelling, interactive app to help attract
new students
• Way for students, faculty and visitors to
interact with their surroundings, and find their
way around campus
36. Drupal Tools
- Fields for any kind of geolocation (lat/lon/altitude....)
- Geocoders that automatically geocode from addresses
- Google Maps, Open Layers maps and others
- Proximity location info
http://drupal.org/project/geophp
http://drupal.org/project/geofield
http://drupal.org/project/geocoder
http://drupal.org/project/geocoder_autocomplete
http://drupal.org/project/addressfield
http://drupal.org/project/staticmap
http://drupal.org/project/openlayers
http://drupal.org/project/geolocation
http://drupal.org/project/geolocation_proximity
http://www.fiercedeveloper.com/europe/story/augmented-reality-apps-market-could-blossom-300m-2013/2012-11-26Many categories are contributing to growth. Enterprise is kinda late to the game but growing. Mobile and interactive retail is growing.