Mobile augmented reality enhances museum tour

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD have developed an augmented-reality system for use as a virtual museum guide. Visitors can hold their touch screen consoles in front of an art piece and the relevant customized information would appear on the screens. Software has been written to recognize images captured by a camera on the console. According to the press release, the researchers say that the success of their application clearly indicates “a trend towards mobile, virtual guidebooks”, and that mobile phones could “accelerate acceptance of augmented reality”.