We've received an update on Google's plans for augmented reality during Google IO 2019, and that sounds like a lot of fun and games – with some promising breakthroughs for even casual users of Google products.
This includes people who use only Google Search. During the conference, a presenter explained how the research reports would be added to the search results: search for information about sharks and you can click a button to access a lite camera application and place a 3D model of the shark in real life. life, as if to compare the size. Another example showed a flexed and relaxing modeled skeletal and muscular arm – something much easier to see from different angles in RA than in a single image.
After the keynote speech, we went to one of the Google IO 2019 sandboxes, which is bursting with fun exhibitions for AR – all with different applications of AR technology that, strictly speaking, n & # 39; They were not there at all.
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3D models from a browser
Like the shark during the keynote address, this exhibition featured a 3D model that you can load from a website and place in a camera-style camera-style lens. In this case, a NASA website detailing the Curiosity Rover included a button to expand this app-style screen to allow users to place their own galactic explorer in a real space.
This is a simple and cool way to view objects in real space, which is especially useful if they are properly resized. But who does not want to pinch and zoom on a cute mini-rover?
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Garden AR
This exhibition presented a common digital garden. When you join a "room" with other users, you will see a garden with 3D flowers, apparently the ones that everyone has planted.
The performance was not perfect because it was impossible to immediately show the flowers of one screen on another just after planting them, but the idea is solid. What if you could add to everyone's digital group projects – or play a game in common, such as a persistent and huge game of Pokemon Go?
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All neon lights to print
Ok, this one is not too revolutionary – everyone used a Snap filter. This exhibition featured glasses and neon hair on the face as an awkward AR mask for an EDM concert.
Still, it's pretty cool to have a superposition that plays with the light – this slider on the right darkens the screen until only the glasses and neon hair remain.
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Illuminated mannequins
That's good: a 3D manikin with an adaptive HDR layer that you can turn on and off. Without the layer, however, the model looks very computer generated … that is, irrelevant.
The HDR layer simulates lighting effects appropriate to the room. turn it on and the 3D manikin looks more like being in the same space under the same lighting. This is a small but surprisingly effective layer of verisimilitude.
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BaristAR
The last one on our list is the simplest, which has placed an educational animation on an inert machine. This exhibition guided the user in the steps of, in this case, preparing a good cup of coffee.
The applications here are obvious: using your phone, you can get instructions or instructions that can be updated as simply as updating the software. In fact, Google has used this feature in its official IO app as a navigation overlay to help attendees move around during Google IO 2019.
