Billinghurst Describes Future of Augmented Reality
Mark Billinghurst is a pioneer and researcher in the Augmented Reality field. He and his students have written hundreds of peer-reviewed articles. In addition, he co-founded ARToolworks which was acquired by DAQRI in February 2015.
Billinghurst recently posted a presentation on SlideShare in which he describes the major trends in Augmented Reality. Billinghurst focuses on developments we can expect over the next 20 years in three key areas: displays, interactivity and tracking.
Billinghurst describes a bright future for hands-free displays. He also predicts that there will be contact lenses adapted for AR experience delivery. In the domain of interaction, the future will not be dominated by one mode. Rather, systems will be increasingly “multimodal” involving speech, gesture and even adapt or evolve based on the user and their situation.
Finally, Billinghurst predicts rapid improvements in tracking. Tracking technology will be increasingly capable of performing well on deformable objects and in a wide variety of environmental conditions which are unsuitable using today’s technologies. Finally, he predicts that tracking in the future will be better while also requiring fewer computational resources than it does today.