DWARF Distributed Wearable Augmented Reality Framework

The Chair for Applied Software Engineering at the Technische Universität München is doing research on the field of Augmented Reality systems. Augmented reality (AR) is a technology by which a user’s view of the real world is augmented with additional information from a computer model. Users can work with and examine real world objects while receiving additional information about those objects or the task at hand. Rather than pulling the user into the computer’s virtual world, AR brings information into the user’s real world, thereby building upon people’s visual and spatial skills. AR constitutes a very promising new user interface concept for many applications, e.g., in medicine, exterior construction, interior design, the assembly, maintenance, and repair of complex technical objects, and games (as seen in figure 1). From a software architecture point of view AR systems can be divided into a set of components that each contribute a dedicated functionality to the whole system.