VENTURI

EC FP7-ICT project VENTURI - immersiVe ENhancemenT of User-woRld Interactions - aims at creating a pervasive Augmented Reality paradigm, where information is presented in a ‘user’ rather than a ‘device’ centric way.

Augmented Reality (AR) is a concept and a vision that has been with us, and will be with us, for the foreseeable future. Were already augmented today using mobile devices with a connection to the Internet allowing us to almost instantly gain access to the collective global human knowledge. Were starting to add visual augmentation into some devices, but we are only tapping into a small part of the available potential. VENTURI aims to create a pervasive AR paradigm, where available information will be presented in a user rather than a device centric way. This requires a change in how we think of and develop user interaction interfaces, making context the starting point of all interactions. Our goal is to create an experience thats always present whilst never obstructing. To date, convincing AR has only been demonstrated on small mock-ups in controlled spaces; we havent yet seen key conditions being met to make AR a booming technology: seamless persistence and pervasiveness. VENTURI addresses such issues, creating a user appropriate, contextually aware AR system, through a seamless integration of core technologies and applications on a state-of-the-art mobile platform.