{"id":1176,"date":"2011-06-16T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/06\/16\/what-is-ar\/"},"modified":"2011-06-16T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T21:36:00","slug":"what-is-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/06\/16\/what-is-ar\/","title":{"rendered":"What is AR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tFMYxDF6QbA\/Tfp4SD9EqhI\/AAAAAAAAAJc\/eI7nclYaK_0\/s1600\/augReality.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 320px;height: 192px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tFMYxDF6QbA\/Tfp4SD9EqhI\/AAAAAAAAAJc\/eI7nclYaK_0\/s320\/augReality.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618935736792558098\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&#8220;AR&#8221; is an acronym for &#8220;augmented reality.&#8221;  For those who don&#8217;t know AR is adding digital images, text or information to a real-time image\/video of the real world.<\/p>\n<p>Take the photo to the left, for example.  The iPhone user is pointing the camera on his phone at a building.  The application then provides the rest of the information and overlays it on a visual layer.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this video, it&#8217;s a more fun application of AR:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/2430949\">Virtual Ribbons<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/jamesalliban\">James Alliban<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I know it seems like this technology is WAY beyond anything you can do at this point, but it&#8217;s not.  You can do it in Flash.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/devnet\/flash\/articles\/augmented_reality.html\">Check out this tutorial from Adobe<\/a> and learn just how easy it can be to create amazing AR applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;AR&#8221; is an acronym for &#8220;augmented reality.&#8221; For those who don&#8217;t know AR is adding digital images, text or information to a real-time image\/video of the real world. Take the photo to the left, for example. The iPhone user is pointing the camera on his phone at a building. The application then provides the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,104,106,144,348],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adobe","tag-dms","tag-dms-help","tag-flash","tag-text-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}