MARA

Nokia now works with some external partners, including Helsinki University of Technology, the Tampere University of Technology, and the Finnish research company VTT, on a two year project titled "Mobile Mixed Reality". The project looks at mixed reality application in two streams - those that are feasible in the shorter term, such as MARA style mobile AR, and more long-term research topics such as head-mounted display based AR. In the former category NRC works on building an updated platfrom similar to MARA, with the goal of releasing some applications in the future that allow users to create mixed-reality content and add digital layers to the world.

NRC modified a standard mobile phone by adding position and orientation sensors, and made some demonstration applications. At PICNIC NRC will give a preview of a mobile phone that has all the sensors MARA required embedded in the hardware. Very exciting!