MagicWatch
Augmented reality that turns context cues into live database views.
Eddie OffermannConcept and development
- Role
- Concept and development
- Areas
- XR, Apps, Computer Vision
MagicWatch is an augmented reality experiment in connecting what you're looking at to what a database knows about it. The app works out its context, then runs live queries and presents the results graphically in the space around you, including streaming media into a virtual display.
In the demo, context comes from special "Context Glyphs": simple printed markers, one of them worn like a watch face. The design doesn't depend on glyphs, though. It's meant to take context from a variety of cues.
It runs on ordinary Android and iOS phones and tablets, with no special sensors.
This was a proof of concept. We left the tracking hiccups in the edit on purpose, so the video shows what the device actually saw.
Part of our mobile XR R&D.
Gallery
Recorded on the device, tracking hiccups included.
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