A. Background: INTRODUCTION Context Aware Computing and Augmented Reality (AR) applications will be prominent among the top few technology application trends in the second decade of the twenty-first century.
The enabling forces behind this trend are:
- Increasing power of computation on affordable hardware platforms
- Maturity of support technologies for context awareness including sensors, image processing and graphics
- Rapid developments in Wireless/mobile communications fabric (broadband, standards, interfaces, networks, …)
- Raise in the basic expectations of performance and perception standards of end users of technology