[Geowanking] Augmented Reality working group?

[Andrew Larcombe]

Anselm Hook wrote:
> ...and I could see what he was referring to directly by just looking
> out the window.  It would have been wonderful to have a smart window
> showing not just the digital facts (who was where, what was where) but
> of how it came to be there; its flow over time, and where it was
> going. To see not just the present but to see through the layers of
> time as well...

Wearing my archaeology hat, this is just the sort of thing that I'm 
interested in from a couple of perspectives.

1. The use of AR on sites to display your present view as it would have 
looked at a certain time in the past, a populist example: Stonehenge 
without the stone megaliths.

2. The use of AR to help us to understand how past societies experienced 
individual sites and the inter-site relationships. Your average Roman 
didn't have access to Google Maps to visualise spatial relationships as 
we do. Viewsheds, topographical prominence models, AR can help to 
simulate the view a landscape gave in the past.

Getting late here, more tomorrow,

Cheers,

Andrew