We present a comprehensive augmented reality solution to efficiently perform different verification pocedures during industrial assembly-line manufacturing using CAD data from product lifecycle management (PLM) systems. The demonstration focuses on a variety of industrial use-cases that have to go through different control processes, assisted by augmented reality tools. Thus, the experience has to be precise, robust to natural movements and easy to realise for an assembly-line technician.

Our research in Mobile HCI concerns the exploration of new interaction and visualization techniques for 3D data on mobile devices. Furthermore, we want to examine new forms of collaboration supporting groups of people, who interact together with diverse data using heterogeneous hardware, from small mobile devices to large projection screens. Hence, in our investigations we propose adapted visual representations and efficient interaction techniques that take in account the human factor, as well as technical terms of mobile technology.

We present a novel interaction technique called Immersive Navidget for navigation in immersive virtual environments (VE), see Figure 1. This technique, based on Navidget, allows fast and easy 3D camera positioning from simple controls. In this paper, we focus on the technical issues that are induced by the VR setups and we propose solutions to adapt Navidget to the immersive context. We show that this new approach has many advantages for navigation in immersive VEs.

We present techniques which create a consistent illumination between real and virtual objects inside an application specific optical see-through display: the virtual showcase. We use projectors and cameras to capture reflectance information from diffuse real objects and to illuminate them under new synthetic lighting conditions. Matching direct and indirect lighting effects, such as shading, shadows, reflections and color bleeding can be approximated at interactive rates in such a controlled mixed environment.

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