ABSTRACT
Panoramas, as a medium, have traditionally provided viewers
with an encompassing experience of distant locations. In recent
years, this experience has been augmented by combining
handheld orientation sensors with digital panoramas to create
mixed reality experiences that transform mobile devices into
windows to the remote. Less explored, have been the mixed
reality opportunities afforded through the viewing of mobile
panoramas non-remotely, at or near their real world epicenters.
This paper presents two handheld AR web applications, running
on publicly available hardware and software, that utilize
panoramas to facilitate both remote and on-location AR
experiences. It explores how the experience and the utility of a
panorama differ depending on the location in which it is viewed