Ohio State Innovation Foundation

Ritesh Sarkhel

Arnab Nandi

Codi Burley

Systems and methods are provided that allow developers to quickly and easily develop augmented reality (AR) applications that enrich the real-world with data from the cloud. Given that the development of an AR application is a complex and time-consuming process, the systems and methods described herein allow software developers to concisely describe their needs in a succinct program, written in the QWL domain-specific language. The systems and methods take this program and automatically generate an AR application.

Method and system for generating data-enriching augmented reality applications from a domain-specific language

An end-to-end software framework is provided for information extraction, enrichment, and caching in applications that involve exploring real-world data through a camera-based viewport in an augmented reality (AR) setting. It allows users to gather supplementary information through cross-modal data fusion against cloud-based datastores. Additional context is provided by retrieving data units from remote datastores that are relevant to the queried item. Given that such datastores often do not fit in main memory, a client-server architecture is used. Users interact with real-world objects via a camera-enabled client interface, and queries are executed using gesture-based interactions as supplementary information is retrieved from a back-end server (if necessary) and overlaid in the client's live camera-view.

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Ritesh Sarkhel