Nathalie Allard's List: AUGMENTED REALITY

Our access to the 'virtual universe' is ever-increasing and soon the continuum will be extended beyond its current boundaries, on a multidimensional basis.

The Virtuality Continuum concept was devised to clarify the various combinations of mixed environments, representing the different states of Mixed Reality as seen in the image below. (image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuality_Continuum)

AKQA using AR in a USPS "virtual box simulator". If it fits, it ships... Simon Kitson

SLARToolkit is a flexible Augmented Reality library for Silverlight with the aim to make real time Augmented Reality applications with Silverlight as easy and fast as possible. It can be used with the Webcam API that was introduced in Silverlight 4 or with any other CaptureSource or a WriteableBitmap. SLARTookit is based on the established NyARToolkit and ARToolkit. SLARToolkit uses a dual license model and could be used for open or closed source applications under certain conditions. See the License page for details.