Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality World | 拡張現実と仮想現実の世界

Florence AR, interactive tourist map 
(Bird's eye AR map)
Giovanni Landi, Giacomo Chegia, Nicola Pireddu, UBICAsrl

Demo presented at ISMAR2012
novembre 5-8, Atlanta, Georgia

In traditional bird's eye view maps the spatial relations between spots and locations are perceived in a unique and very natural way, making it easy and intuitive to orient oneself. In many tourist maps, this perspective survives assisted by other useful graphical elements. Augmented reality allows the development of interactive tourist maps where the user can observe a detailed 3d reconstruction of the city from an ideal bird's view perspective, finding monuments and points of interest in a easy and intuitive way. The traditional tourist city map could be distributed together with a specific AR app that uses the paper map as AR marker, adding a new layer of extra tourist infos (updated regularly), a 3d model of the city and its monuments plus all the location based services available with the GPS support.