Riley's Research

Riley's Research

History

 History: 

Augmented reality was first brought together in a device using image overlay for a sense of vision, air movement, smells and even small vibration by Morton Heilig to simulate the real world or more so to give the illusion of the real world. This device was a large device that you had to sit in called the Sensorama Machine. As a film maker and visionary for making films better and more to the core of basic senses for humans, the five senses,



Then Morton came up with a patented the Telesphere Mask which was the first head mounted screen that also had stereo sound, the 3-D effect and a widescreen. This device soon brought many ideas to use technology and visual overlay on a single persons vision. A very cool use today is a display in the visor of jet fighters as a targeting system.

Professor Tom Caudell of Boeing’s Computer Services' Adaptive Neural Systems Research and Development project in Seattle[1] developed an augmented reality system that made the wiring to engineers making airplanes much easier and efficient. Professor Tom Caudell created a highly complex program to display the wire layouts for engineers instead of looking at abstract blue prints and thus making the job easier[1].

[1] D. Sung, “ AR is Born” pocket-lint.com, March 2011. [Online]. Available: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/38803/the-history-of-augmented-reality. [Accessed November 21/ 2011]

Following this link is a discriptive timeline of the evolution of augmented reality from Morton Heilig's sensorama through Tom Caudell's innovative augmented assembly of aircraft wiring all the way to medical application of this emerging trend.

http://augreality.pbworks.com/w/page/9469037/History%20of%20AR%20and%20Key%20Researchers%20

Changing The Game/Changing History:

Using a controller wasn't enough to shoot aliens and mutated humans, and in one of the first kind of first person shooters Quake made that happen. But, now with augmented reality extending itself across all reaches of technological advances,  ARQuake  is born and augmented reality becomes even more innovative.