Big Fat Wand: A Laser Projection System for Information Sharing in a Workspace

This paper proposes the method to solve a problem of a triad relation thorough an augmented reality system in cooperative works. It enables us to explain shortly, because it utilize spatial information without translation it to verbal ones. This paper realizes it with the laser projection AR system, Big Fat Wand (BFW). It meets requirement for a real workspace. From experimental results, the AR method with BFW is effective to decrease the explanation time.

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