Shadow-Free Augmented Reality Makes Illusions More Realistic

Shadow-Free Augmented Reality Makes Illusions More Realistic. This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.

In spatial augmented reality, light is projected onto surrounding objects to manipulate their appearance. The idea isn’t new, but researchers are now finding more and more sophisticated ways of taking the technique to the next level.

Most recently, one group in Japan has developed an immersive augmented reality system that reduces blur, nearly eliminates shadows, and overall boosts users’ perception that the projections are realistic. They describe their system in a study published in the May issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Projection mapping is a form of.