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Navigation Techniques in Augmented and Mixed Reality: Crossing the Virtuality Continuum

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Exploring and surveying the world has been an important goal of humankind for thousands of years. Entering the twenty-first century, the Earth has almost been fully digitally mapped. Widespread deployment of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technology and a tremendous increase of both satellite and street-level mapping over the last decade enables the public to view large portions of the world using computer applications such as Bing Maps1 or Google Earth2.

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  1. 1.

    Bing Maps, Microsoft Corporation, http://www.bing.com/maps/.

  2. 2.

    Google Earth, Google Inc., http://earth.google.com.

  3. 3.

    Junaio Augmented Reality browser: http://www.junaio.com.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermedia.

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Grasset, R., Mulloni, A., Billinghurst, M., Schmalstieg, D. (2011). Navigation Techniques in Augmented and Mixed Reality: Crossing the Virtuality Continuum. In: Furht, B. (eds) Handbook of Augmented Reality. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0064-6_18

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