Augmented reality & information
We can build environments that supply us with the information we need when we need it. By adding visual, auditory, and tactile feedback to our existing environments we can make a new world, but how well does it work?
Augmented Reality Kitchen
Jackie Lee, Ernesto Arroyo and Ted Selker
This project consists of projected text and graphics annotation on different appliances, used to augment kitchen tasks. Digital annotation is projected in the working environment in order to avoid losing focus on any of the simultaneous events. The refrigerator shows text describing its contents and items that need to be purchased, in addition to serving as a digital bulletin board. The dishwasher displays whether it is clean or dirty, empty or full. The range is projected with information on its temperature to avoid accidents. These annotations allow the objects themselves to tell the story relating to them, not a message somewhere else that might not be noticed.