Augmented Reality Applications In The World Heritage Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine

摘要

Although CG and AR techniques are inferior to actually reconstructing the excavated sites, they are an increasingly popular tool for people to view their world through the cameras of their smartphones and tablets while overlays of additional digital information augment that view. The techniques have distinct advantages in their abilities such as displaying a replicated reconstruction of the excavated scene with additional information in real space. AR also provides for quick and cost-effective information updates and, particularly, the ability to modify a excavation scene without damaging the remains.This article describes two types of positioning for augmented reality systems -marker and markerless (use of GPS) - to provide visitors a visual understanding, in real space on a PC (Windows) or tablet terminal (iOS, Android) environment, of information obtained from excavation about the site's remains augmented with historical background facts.