Technical sample of the possibilities of Augmented Reality for interactive games, publicity, marketing, products demos, events...

New training methodologies include novel techniques such as Augmented Reality on groups dinamization. For example the training course given to city council personal in Burgos Spain, about Environmental management and Sustainability, where they could interact with a virtual City changing its conditions and environmental basic indicators.

Our extensive experience in the field of augmented reality for PCs offers a series of advantages compared to our applications for mobile devices, in return for sacrificing mobility:

• Recreation of more complex environments.
• Larger screens for viewing.
• Greater image resolution.
• Enhanced physical realities.

For this reason ITCL have developed applications for PCs which, among other aspects, allow maintenance to be carried out, to depict architectural reconstructions, games based on physical phenomena, advertising etc.

The versatility of augmented reality comes into its own when employed on a mobile device. ITCL have a number of interactive manuals available which deal with the maintenance of such platforms, guiding the user through operating and maintenance processes in an intuitive and attractive manner.

AR technology has been used in the development of mobile interactive guides which provide support for a worker’s operations, ensuring the following benefits:

• The prevention of mistakes in maintenance operations.
• Time spent consulting traditional paper manuals can be saved.
• Savings in travel costs, etc. for both specialist staff and those undergoing training.
• Reduced dependency on expert professionals.
• Consistency in training quality.
• A portable guide which provides invaluable help with non-standard operations.

The Augmented Reality Editor, in this first version, pretends to be a tool for create interactive guides for maintenance on an easy and quick way. Is not necessary to have especial skills to edit or modify a guide. One of the greatest advantages is that the editor allows the exportation of the steps of the operation to PC and to some mobile devices.

Insert markers, add 3D objects and 3D text on it, put the steps into the correct order and you will visualize your guide.