II-New: Seeing the Future: Ubiquitous Computing in EyeGlasses

这个项目正在建立一个原型生态系统，在这个生态系统中，一群人可以在一个环境中与未来研究中设想的个人增强现实（AR）设备进行互动。提供的硬件作为理解和构建个人AR设备生态系统的平台，用户可以问“我把钥匙放在哪里了？”，并从他/她的眼镜上获得即时响应。设想中的系统还可以提醒人们吃药，创建一个包含多人视角的环境协作重建，或者一个应用程序，使人们能够在街上看到任何商品。所有这些应用以及更多的应用都可以通过个人无处不在的免提视觉设备来实现，这些设备可以完全感知环境。该项目提供硬件，以支持开发个人AR系统技术的研究，这些系统不受阻碍，无处不在，可以免提使用，具有覆盖用户周围环境的宽视场显示器。这样的设备将能够开发对社会和商业有益的应用，例如医生的辅助工具。原型硬件和软件组件支持研究以达到这些目标。由原型机支持的合作项目也在研究独特的研究问题，包括增强日常生活活动、医疗保健管理和培训，以及分布式交互式计算机视觉、分布式计算、能源/电源管理、安全和隐私等计算机科学研究问题。更广泛的影响包括为残疾人开发应用程序、医疗保健管理工具和老年人援助。

This project is building a prototype ecosystem in which a collection of people can interact in an environment with the envisioned personal augmented reality (AR) device of the future research. The provided hardware serves as a platform for understanding and building of the ecosystem for personal AR devices that a user can ask "Where did I put my keys?" and get an instantaneous response from his/her eyeglasses. The envisioned system can also remind people to take medicine, create a collaborative reconstruction of an environment incorporating the perspectives of multiple people, or an app that enables one to shop for any item seen while walking down the street. All of these applications and more could be enabled by personal ubiquitous hands-free visual devices that have total awareness of the environment. This project provides hardware to enable research in developing technologies for personal AR systems that are unencumbered, ubiquitous, and can be used hands-free, with a wide field-of-view display overlaid to the user's view of the surroundings. Such devices would enable the development of societally and commercially beneficial applications such as assistance tools for physicians. The prototyped hardware and software components are supporting the research to reach these goals. The collaborative projects enabled by the prototypes are also studying unique research questions, including enhancing everyday life activities, health care management and training, as well as computer science research questions such as distributed interactive computer vision, distributed computing, energy/power management, security, and privacy. Broader impacts include developing applications for the disabled, tools for healthcare management, and elderly assistance.