Body LayARs: A Toolkit for Body-Based Augmented Reality

Henning Pohl; Tor-Salve Dalsgaard; Vesa  Krasniqi; Kasper Hornbæk

doi:10.1145/3385956.3418946

Body LayARs: A Toolkit for Body-Based Augmented Reality

Henning Pohl, Tor-Salve Dalsgaard, Vesa Krasniqi, Kasper Hornbæk

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Abstract

Technological advances are enabling a new class of augmented reality (AR) applications that use bodies as substrates for input and output. In contrast to sensing and augmenting objects, body-based AR applications track people around the user and layer information on them. However, prototyping such applications is complex, time-consuming, and cumbersome, due to a lack of easily accessible tooling and infrastructure. We present Body LayARs, a toolkit for fast development of body-based AR prototypes. Instead of directly programming for a device, Body LayARs provides an extensible graphical programming environment with a device-independent runtime abstraction. We focus on face-based experiences for headset AR, and show how Body LayARs makes a range of body-based AR applications fast and easy to prototype.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	VRST '20: 26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
Number of pages	11
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2020
Article number	12
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-7619-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3385956.3418946
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology - VRST '20 - Virtual Event, Canada Duration: 1 Nov 2020 → 4 Nov 2020

Conference

Conference	26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology - VRST '20
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Virtual Event
Period	01/11/2020 → 04/11/2020

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Pohl, H, Dalsgaard, T-S, Krasniqi, V & Hornbæk, K 2020, Body LayARs: A Toolkit for Body-Based Augmented Reality. in VRST '20: 26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology., 12, Association for Computing Machinery, 26th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology - VRST '20, Virtual Event, Canada, 01/11/2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3385956.3418946

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