AUGMENTED REALITY AND MODERN TECHNOLOGIES (part №3) And it is still not a complete list of possible use of AR. AR has definitely left the hype stage and is entering our daily life in many useful ways. The list of companies which use AR in different ways is really large it is Adidas, Ray Ban, Calvin Klein, Audi, Kia, Ford, General Electric, WWF, Walt Disney, Tissot, MTS, Intel, IBM, Nokia, Toyota, Peugeot, Volkswagen, Skoda, LEGO, IKEA, Canon, Olympus, H&M, Samsung, Sony, Nestlé and a myriad of others. There are plenty of annual international conferences on the studying and using AR. As a universal interface technology, AR can make life easier and more efficient in almost any market or industry, scenario or at any place. Especially with the high and rising penetration rate of smartphones an ultimate AR device will be always at hand. Augmented Reality is definitely here to stay and has found its place in everyday life.

AUGMENTED REALITY AND MODERN TECHNOLOGIES (part №2) Another direction - is education. For example, in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Korea, AR for education is developing very rapidly. First of all it is exhibitions, presentations which become more interesting more interactive and more visual with AR. Examples of this form of using AR is really impressive. Besides students are more likely to comprehend what they are learning and to remember it later. Also AR has started a new stage of development of marketing, advertisement and internet retail. In these spheres AR is often used for create promotional materials. Usually it is different surfaces with special pictures or tags and when you show it to your webcam you can see 3D pictures or video and hear sounds. But that's not all. Virtual fitting rooms with using of AR are already created in the Internet. There you can try on watches, sunglasses and clothes. One more application is books and magazines. The pictures are become alive on pages in front of webcam. Looking at a book with the appropriate tags, you can add reading with viewing of 3D animated models, and the paper chart - to see mountain ranges, seas and oceans. Another one interesting field connected with mobile applications. “Augmented City” become reality: walking around the real world, pointing your phone at objects, buildings or directions and being offered helpful information, be it text, sound, video or complete 3D displays not only overlaid, but integrated accurately with the object viewed. Such systems may also provide a good tool for travelers - looking at tourist attractions through his glasses, you can, for example, to see the Coliseum in its original form, or simply read the background information of the masterpieces of architecture. In order to use objects in the real world as optical references, one of the most important prerequisites are improved algorithms for visual search in combination with an intelligent service architecture, which an AR browsers can use to create a fully augmented world. AR development is in medicine (surgery operations), in automobile production (Audi A8 with AR display on windshield), in architecture (future project in full size is right on the construction site). The number of AR projects in entertainment sphere is really great but foremost it is a games. Also AR gives impressive opportunities for people with visual disturbances like colorblind persons and even for the totally blind persons.

AUGMENTED REALITY AND MODERN TECHNOLOGIES (part №1) The research is devoted to augmented reality and modern technologies. Despite the fact that technology of augmented reality has already developed about 20 years there are steel stay people who do not even heard about this term. According to world-famous magazine Popular Science augmented reality is one of currently emerging technologies. Ideologists and experts assert this technology will open the widest horizons for various fields. They believe augmented reality will make real revolution in the nearest 10 or 15 years. The goal of augmented reality or AR is to add information and meaning to a real object or place. Unlike virtual reality, augmented reality does not create a simulation of reality. Instead, it takes a real object or space as the foundation and incorporates technologies that add contextual data to deepen a person’s understanding of the subject. AR might add audio commentary, location data, historical context, or other forms of content that can make a user’s experience of a thing or a place more meaningful. One can use AR only with camera (web or mobile phone), Internet, special software and one of devises like smartphone or computer. But there are develop other ways like AR glasses (which has already existed) and contact lenses with displays. The last way is one of the most perspective solutions. Today the largest practical area is the military and defense industry. There are special systems for pilots and for infantry. Augmented reality has already found application in the sphere of services of different equipment, ranging from military cars and planes and ending with the International Space Station. Without going into technical details we can say that this system allows technicians to see data about the faults and other clues in front of themselves. Also the same technology has already used by BMW, Siemens, Aircraft Concern EADS and apparently this direction will have a great future. Another direction - is education. For example, in New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Korea, AR for education is developing very rapidly. First of all it is exhibitions, presentations which become more interesting more interactive and more visual with AR. Examples of this form of using AR is really impressive. Besides students are more likely to comprehend what they are learning and to remember it later. Also AR has started a new stage of development of marketing, advertisement and internet retail. In these spheres AR is often used for create promotional materials.

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"Prague-bearing prairie dogs". What does it mean? I'm sorry but it is all sentence! Without any context ... It is a title on my copybook! I'm really surprised by this. Especially by picture under this title. It is dogs) Russian designers are adorable! How they can write such stupid title..? Thank you all for your answers.

I need your help with prepositions, please! Who can check this task? 1. Pass the salt, please. 2. Pass the salt for me. 3. Give the bread to me. 4. Show the menu the boy. 5. Show the boy this menu. 6. He is going to come in the café … half an hour. 7. Look on that boy. How dirty he is! 8. I see a new plate on the table. 9. The children are having dinner in the dining-room. 10. Are you going to the restaurant? – No, I’m going to home. 11. They have breakfast at 8 o’clock in the morning. 12. I dine at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. 13. What do you see on this picture? – I see some fruit in it. 14. Excuse me may I have some more bread? 15. Have some fruit.- … pleasure. 16. Help yourself some plumps, please. 17. I prefer an apple to ice –cream. 18. The children are ready breakfast. They are waiting for their father. 19. Let’s have some herring to begin …. 20. What do you say …an ice-cream? 21. As for me I prefer a piece of cake to sweets. 22. A waitress is coming to our table. 23. The pudding is for your taste, I hope. 24. Father usually comes home in time. It is just the time of our supper. 25. We must pay the waitress for the dinner. 26. I am fond of vegetables and meat. Thanks for your help! =)

loveis_myname's notebook entry: Dec 23, 2010 Hi! I learn English and will be very glad if you help me. In exchange I can help you with Russian language.