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Figure 18: An actual video see-through HMD. (Courtesy Jannick Rolland, Frank Biocca, and UNC Chapel Hill Dept. of Computer Science. Photo by Alex Treml.)
Video composition can be done in more than one way. A simple way is to use chroma-keying: a technique used in many video special effects. The background of the computer graphic images is set to a specific color, say green, which none of the virtual objects use. Then the combining step replaces all green areas with the corresponding parts from the video of the real world. This has the effect of superimposing the virtual objects over the real world. A more sophisticated composition would use depth information. If the system had depth information at each pixel for the real world images, it could combine the real and virtual images by a pixel-by-pixel depth comparison. This would allow real objects to cover virtual objects and vice-versa.
AR systems can also be built using monitor-based configurations, instead of see-through HMDs. Figure 19 shows how a monitor-based system might be built. In this case, one or two video cameras view the environment. The cameras may be static or mobile. In the mobile case, the cameras might move around by being attached to a robot, with their locations tracked. The video of the real world and the graphic images generated by a scene generator are combined, just as in the video see-through HMD case, and displayed in a monitor in front of the user. The user does not wear the display device. Optionally, the images may be displayed in stereo on the monitor, which then requires the user to wear a pair of stereo glasses. Figure 20 shows an external view of the ARGOS system, which uses a monitor-based configuration.



Figure 19: Monitor-based AR conceptual diagram




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