Computer-mediated reality

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Art installation illustrating the mediated reality concept. First we display what's really there, and then this allows a computer to be inserted into the "reality stream" to modify it.
Mediated Reality application running on Apple iPhone

Computer-mediated reality refers to the ability to add to, subtract information from, or otherwise manipulate one's perception of reality through the use of a wearable computer or hand-held device[1] such as a smart phone.

Typically, it is the user's visual perception of the environment that is mediated. This is done through the use of some kind of electronic device, such as an EyeTap device or smart phone, which can act as a visual filter between the real world and what the user perceives.

Computer-mediated reality has been used to enhance visual perception as an aid to the visually impaired. This example achieves a mediated reality by altering a video input stream light that would have normally reached the user's eyes, and computationally altering it to filter it into a more useful form.

It has also been used for interactive computer interfaces.[2]

The use of computer-mediated reality to diminish perception, by the removal or masking of visual data, has been used for architectural applications, and is an area of ongoing research (see for instance, here and here)

Window managers

One common window manager in mediated reality is the "Reality Window Manager" [3]

Wireless mediated reality

Bluetooth devices are often used with mediated reality[4]

With wireless communications, mediated reality can also become a communications medium among different communities[5]

With the use of EyeTap, such interaction is called "seeing eye-to-eye"[6]

Applications

Applications of mediated reality include devices that help people see better, as well as devices for gaming and equipment repair, telemedicine, remote expert advice interfaces, and wayfinding. Mediated reality is also used in robotics[7] and drawing applications such as the "Loose and Sketchy" drawing package[8]

Related concepts

Mixed reality and augmented reality are special cases of mediated reality

Mediated reality is related to other concepts such as augmented reality (of which is a special case of mediated reality), virtual reality, etc.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Wearable,Tetherless, Computer-Mediated Reality", Technical Report #260, M.I.T. Medial Lab Perceptual Computing Section, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994
  2. ↑ Interactive Mediated Reality, Raphael Grasset, Jean-Dominique Gascuel, and Dieter Schmalstieg, Proc. ISMAR 2003, IEEE
  3. ↑ Mediated Reality, by Steve Mann, Linux Journal, Article No5, Issue59, 1999march01, ISSN:1075-3583
  4. ↑ Mediated Reality Bluetooth Device Locator by S Parikh et al., IEEE CSIDC 2002
  5. ↑ Mediated Reality Bites: Comparing Direct and Indirect Experience as Sources of Perceptions Across Two Communities in China, Authors: Guo, Zhongshi; Zhu, Jonathan J. H., International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 13, Number 4, 0, 1 2001 , pp. 398-418(21), Oxford University Press
  6. ↑ Seeing Eye to Eye: A Shared Mediated Reality Using EyeTap Devices and the VideoOrbits Gyroscopic Head Tracker, by Felix Tang, et al., IEEE ISMAR 2002, Darmstadt, Germany September 30-October 01 ISBN 0-7695-1781-1, pp. 267--??
  7. ↑ Daniel Suarez: Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality (discussion of Mediated and Augmented Reality, bots, etc.)
  8. ↑ A Loose and Sketchy Approach in a Mediated Reality Environment, by Haller, M., Landerl, F., and Billinghurst, M.
  9. ↑ Mediated Reality with implementations for everyday life, Presence Connect, MIT Press journal PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Date Posted: 2002 August 6

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