Lions, Tigers and BULBASAURS! Join us for an exciting journey as we explore groundbreaking Augmented Reality research that takes us Beyond Pokémon and (GO)es into some of the latest AR applications.
Augmented reality integrates “spatially registered” media with our real-world view of the environment. Researchers at Georgia Tech are building tools to enable non-technologists to more easily mix real and virtual elements to create augmented reality environments for all sorts of purposes, from entertainment to industry to medicine, and much more.
The new Pokémon Go update announcement is a good time to remember that National Science Foundation-funded research makes smartphones–and their games and other apps–possible: multi-touch screens, lithium ion batteries, computer graphics, digital signal processing, CAD used in designing silicon chips, wireless communication research that led to advances in 3G, 4G, LTE and Wi-Fi, and more. If you can’t imagine life without a mobile phone, you can’t imagine life without NSF-funded research.
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