Introduction to Mixed Realities

In the first week of the course, I have a general insight into mixed realities and have an idea of how it works and what it does.

As the name suggests, Mixed Reality is a technology that mixes the physical reality with the digital world.

The fusion of these two worlds will create a unique third world: an environment where virtual and physical objects coexist and can interact in real-time.

This third-hybrid world is produced by the evolved interaction between humans, computers, and the environment. It is because of advances in computer vision, graphics processing capabilities, input systems, and display technology that this interaction is possible.

People have already conducted a lot of research on the interaction between humans and computers. The subject has even been formally studied as a subject-and appropriately named Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). That is, humans input information into the computer system in various ways such as mouse, keyboard, touch screen, voice, and even skeleton tracking.

About AR:

Augmented reality superimposes digital elements on top of a real-time view of the real world, and in most cases uses a camera on a smartphone.

As the name suggests, augmented reality is a technology that uses digital information and media such as 3D models and videos to "enhance" the real world, superimposing various elements on the real-time camera view of the user device.

Pokemon and Snapchat filters are well-known examples of AR.

Experiment time!

This is a filter I have created on Spark AR, which is an application that could help people to make filters for Facebook and Instagram. This is also an example of AR, it tracks your face and put digital filters onto it.

I am a big fan of Harry Potter, so I have created this very own Harry Potter filter on Spark AR and played around with it a little.

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