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    This document discusses the three main components of augmented reality (AR) systems: 1. The scene generator is responsible for rendering virtual objects in the scene and rendering is not a major challenge as only a few objects need to be rendered. 2. The tracking system is one of the most important problems as it must properly align virtual and real objects, known as registration. Accurate registration is important for many applications like medical systems. 3. Display technology continues to be a limiting factor as see-through displays do not yet have sufficient brightness, resolution, field of view, and contrast to seamlessly blend real and virtual imagery. Advances are being made but displays are also not small, lightweight, or low-

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    This document discusses the three main components of augmented reality (AR) systems: 1. The scene generator is responsible for rendering virtual objects in the scene and rendering is not a major challenge as only a few objects need to be rendered. 2. The tracking system is one of the most important problems as it must properly align virtual and real objects, known as registration. Accurate registration is important for many applications like medical systems. 3. Display technology continues to be a limiting factor as see-through displays do not yet have sufficient brightness, resolution, field of view, and contrast to seamlessly blend real and virtual imagery. Advances are being made but displays are also not small, lightweight, or low-

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    2 AR Components

    2.1 Scene Generator

    The scene generator is the device or software responsible for rendering the scene.
    Rendering is not currently one of the major problems in AR, because a few virtual
    objects need to be drawn, and they often do not necessarily have to be realistically
    rendered in order to serve the purposes of the application [4].

    2.2 Tracking System

    The tracking system is one of the most important problems on AR systems mostly
    because of the registration problem [3]. The objects in the real and virtual worlds
    must be properly aligned with respect to each other, or the illusion that the two
    worlds coexist will be compromised. For the industry, many applications demand
    accurate registration, specially on medical systems [16][4].

    2.3 Display

    The technology for AR is still in development and solutions depend on design


    decisions. Most of the Displays devices for AR are HMD (Head Mounted Display), but
    other solutions can be found (see section 3). When combining the real and virtual
    world two basic choices are available: optical and video technology. Each of them
    has some trade off depending on factors like resolution, flexibility, field-of-view,
    registration strategies, among others [4]. Display technology continues to be a
    limiting factor in the development of AR systems. There are still no see-through
    displays that have sufficient brightness, resolution, field of view, and contrast to
    seamlessly blend a wide range of real and virtual imagery. Furthermore, many
    technologies that begin to approach these goals are not yet sufficiently small,
    lightweight, and low-cost. Nevertheless, the past few years have seen a number of
    advances in see-through display technology, as we shall see next.

    References

    [3] R. Azuma. Tracking requirements for augmented reality. Communications of the


    ACM, 36(7):50-51, 1993.

    [4] R. Azuma. A survey of augmented reality. ACM SIGGRAPH, 1-38, 1997.

    [16] Richard Lee Holloway. Registration errors in augmented reality systems.


    Technical Report TR95-016, The University of North Carolina, 1 1995.

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