Workshop: Mobile Geospatial Augmented Reality

[Tyler Mitchell]

As some of you know, I'm a big fan of augmented reality [1] and have been for 
years.  I see as the needed technology to bring geospatial data into the real 
world instead of always trying to put the real world onto a flat map/screen.  
Below is part of the announcement of a workshop coming up in May, and it 
isn't too far from home (for me!).  Thought some of you might find it 
interesting too.

I was primarily inspired by the work of Wayne Piekarski [3], be sure to see 
his videos for playing Quake [4] on campus.  He'll be at the workshop with 
his 'unit' for people to try out :)

[1] http://images.google.com/images?q=augmented%20reality
[2] http://regard.crg.ulaval.ca/
[3] http://tinmith.net/
[4] http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/projects/ARQuake/www/

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FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
MOBILE GEOSPATIAL AUGMENTED REALITY
Centre for Research in Geomatics (CRG)   
     Call for short papers
May 29-30, 2006
Banff Centre
Banff, Alberta, Canada   
   
     The research team of the REGARD laboratory (a component of the CRG - 
Center for Research in Geomatics) is proud to invite you to the first 
international workshop on mobile geospatial augmented reality (AR). Initiated 
through a grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the REGARD 
laboratory  is the first Canadian research laboratory for mobile geospatial 
augmented reality. It provides the research group with innovative 
technologies in augmented reality for emerging applications in geomatics. The 
research applications implemented on this infrastructure aim to provide users 
with geospatial information, in a mobile context, adapted to their needs and 
their location. This will greatly help the users to better understand and 
interact with their surrounding environment......

For more see: http://regard.crg.ulaval.ca/