Abstract
One of the major opportunities of Augmented Reality (AR) is supporting drivers in wayfinding. In order to correctly display AR visualisations in the environment, accurate global localisation as well as precise mapping of the environment is necessary. As a first step we assessed the positioning error of current Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) sensors and found that the accuracy of current GNSS sensors is not high enough to correctly position AR visualisations at intersections. Based on these results, we developed a novel visualisation which does not require precise localisation and still provides drivers with the impression that it is part of their environment. We implemented this novel visualisation along with a traditional AR visualisation in a car prototype in order to compare them in a user study. Overall, the novel visualisation was preferred over the traditional visualisation without adding additional workload on drivers or decreasing the usability of the visualisation.
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The authors wish to thank the members of the Fachgebiet Augmented Reality at the TU Munich, who contributed in giving advice towards setting up the user study. The authors would also like to thank the software development team in Leonberg for helping to prepare the prototype. This project was made possible in the environment provided by the Robert Bosch GmbH.
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Wiesner, C.A., Klinker, G. (2017). Overcoming Location Inaccuracies in Augmented Reality Navigation. In: De Paolis, L., Bourdot, P., Mongelli, A. (eds) Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics. AVR 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10324. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60922-5_29
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