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The Development of Mobile Augmented Reality

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The goal of this chapter is to provide a high-level overview of fifteen years of augmented reality research that was sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR). The research was conducted at Columbia University and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) between 1991 and 2005 and supported in the later years by a number of university and industrial research laboratories. It laid the groundwork for the development of many commercial mobile augmented reality (AR) applications that are currently available for smartphones. Furthermore, it has helped shape a number of ongoing research activities in mobile AR.

oCurrent affiliation; research performed at the Naval Research Laboratory.

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Yohan Baillot, Reinhold Behringer, Blaine Bell, Dennis Brown, Aaron Bryden, Enylton Coelho, Elliot Cooper-Balis, Deborah Hix, Joseph Gabbard, Brian Goldiez, Tobias Höllerer, Bryan Hurley, Marco Lanzagorta, Dennis Lin, Blair MacIntyre, Douglas Maxwell, Ulrich Neumann, Gregory Schmidt, Erik Tomlin, Ross Whitaker, Suya You, and Catherine Zanbaka. We appreciate the support we had over this extended time period from ONR. In particular, we thank Andre van Tilborg, Wen Masters, Paul Quinn, and Ralph Wachter. We also thank Randy Shumaker and John McLean for their support for the NRL portion of the research. Opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not represent official positions of the Naval Research Laboratory, the National Science Foundation, or any other institution.

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    Lawrence J. Rosenblum

  2. Columbia University, New York, USA

    Steven K. Feiner

  3. University College Londonº, London, UK

    Simon J. Julier

  4. Mississippi State Universityº, Starkville, USA

    J. Edward Swan II

  5. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA

    Mark A. Livingston

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Rosenblum, L.J., Feiner, S.K., Julier, S.J., Swan, J.E., Livingston, M.A. (2012). The Development of Mobile Augmented Reality. In: Dill, J., Earnshaw, R., Kasik, D., Vince, J., Wong, P. (eds) Expanding the Frontiers of Visual Analytics and Visualization. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2804-5_24

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