Meatspace Augmented Reality: From Chester to Nagoya

Check out the newest AR use cases disguised as history lessons!

I love Chester — it's a walled Roman fort town in the North West of England, with heaps of history. On a walk through the Roman Gardens, we came across a real-world Augmented Reality experience that described the breach of the walls in the time of the English Civil War.

Image of Roman Gardens and Civil War Breach AR experience

I thought it was rather neat: With the associated information on the board, it gave me a sense of what was happening in that period. The experience got me thinking about Augmented Reality on modern smartphones and headsets (I've been lucky enough to play with a Magic Leap) — the use cases we will demo with these devices are just not worth the cost of development right now.

Object Detection and Augmentation in Modern Web Development

I’ve been playing around a lot with the Shape Detection API in Chrome and I really like the potential it has. For example, a very simple QRCode detector I wrote a long time ago has a JS polyfill but uses new BarcodeDetector() API if it is available.

You can see some of the other demo’s I’ve built here: https://paul.kinlan.me/face-detection/https://paul.kinlan.me/barcode-detection/ and https://paul.kinlan.me/detecting-text-in-an-image/