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Project name MagicBook
Organisation HITlabNZ
Persons Mark Billinghurst , Raphael Grasset , Julian Looser , Hartmut Seichter , Andreas Duenser
City Christchurch
Country NZ
Period 2008
URL http://www.hitlabnz.org/wiki/MagicBook
Tags handheld glaces, shape recognition, marker, animation, multi-user, 360 large field of view, reactive to hand, marker position, linear narrative, on any surface, books, collaboration,
Text The MagicBook explores seamless transition between reality and virtual reality. When users look at the pages of a real book through a hand held display they can see virtual content superimposed over the real pages. When they see an Augmented Reality (AR) scene they like, the user can fly into the scene and experience it as an immersive virutal environment. In addition the book serves as a focus for collaboration. When several users look at the same book page they can see the AR image from their own viewpoint and when one flys into the virtual model, the other users see her as a virtual character in the scene.