ARQuake: an outdoor/indoor augmented reality first person application

TLDR

ARQuake extends the desktop game Quake into an outdoor/indoor mobile augmented reality first‑person experience. The paper introduces ARQuake, an outdoor/indoor AR first‑person application, and a second AR architectural design visualization app. The authors describe a low‑cost, moderately accurate six‑degree‑of‑freedom tracking system using GPS, a digital compass, and fiducial vision, and discuss usability issues such as monster selection, color, and input devices. They present a second application for AR architectural design visualization.

Abstract

This paper presents an outdoor/indoor augmented reality first person application ARQuake we have developed. ARQuake is an extension of the desktop game Quake, and as such we are investigating how to convert a desktop first person application into an outdoor/indoor mobile augmented reality application. We present an architecture for a low cost, moderately accurate six degrees of freedom tracking system based on GPS, digital compass, and fiducial vision-based tracking. Usability issues such as monster selection, colour, and input devices are discussed. A second application for AR architectural design visualisation is presented.