MARS: Multi-Touch Augmented Reality System and Methods of Interaction with It

Abstract

Augmented reality and multi-touch interaction are two exciting and rapidly developing areas of technology. So far, they have existed and have been developed mostly separately. The presented work explores the attractive qualities of either and demonstrates how they can be merged together to create an immersive and versatile presentation/exploration tool. We present novel ways of interaction that stem from interleaving augmented reality with multi-touch devices and demonstrate them on our own prototype. Our solution creates an interactive environment for presentation and exploration of objects (and data in general) in two linked views with seamless attention transition between the views.