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Zooming Interfaces for Augmented Reality on Phones

Many "AR Browsers" for mobile phones are now hitting the market: They can access large amounts of spatial information from online sources, presenting it at the corresponding physical locations via Augmented Reality.

However, Augmented Reality is constrained to the camera's fixed field of view and restricted to first-person views. This can limit the amount of overview that users can gain. Typical solutions in AR Browsers are overlays (e.g., radars) that are not always sufficiently informative, in particular on small screens.

 

 

We present two zooming interfaces that compensate for these constraints by enabling users to smoothly zoom between the Augmented Reality view and (1) an egocentric panoramic view at 360 degrees, and (2) an exocentric top-down view.

All interfaces run interactively (ca. 15 fps) on a Nokia 6210 Navigator phone.

 

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