Introduction to Next-generation AR Devices:

Overview and Case Study of Microsoft HoloLens and Google Tango

Abstract

  With the spread of personal computers and smartphones, opportunities to casually experience AR technology, wherein CG is superimposed in real-time over landscape images captured with a camera, have increased. Thus, AR is widely used to present information in various fields including education, medicine, manufacturing, and games. However, many AR systems superimposed CG on a maker perceived by image processing therefore we had to be careful that a camera did not miss the maker. However, a device was launched that allowed AR without being aware of the existence of marker using a technology that could perceive three-dimensionally in 2016. One was a HMD type of device named HoloLens from Microsoft and another was a phablet named Tango from Google with a spatial perception technology implemented. Both of them attract a lot of attention as the next generation AR device at this moment. Therefore, we present an overview of these devices with several usage examples.