Augmented Reality

Model Based Engineering panel

Sandy Ressler (NIST) April, 2019

Disclaimer: mention of any commercial tools does not imply an endorsement by NIST.

https://slides.com/sressler/augmented-reality/

Exemplars

• First mass success - Pokemon-Go
• Useful application - warby parker
• Standard File format - Apple USDZ (good and bad)

Warby Parker

Actually useful!!

USDZ

more USDZ

In the CAVE ..immersive not augmented display

Tools

• Unity
• aframe-ar https://aframe.io/blog/arjs/
• Vectary https://www.vectary.com/3d-modeling-how-to/how-to-create-usdz-file-for-ar-online/

Manufacturing/Training

• https://www.ptc.com/en/products/augmented-reality/vuforia-expert-capture

Further Info

• https://math.nist.gov/~SRessler/dlmfvr.html
• https://math.nist.gov/~SRessler/image360.html