Interactive holography system for enhancing Augmented Reality experiences

Augmented reality (AR) provides a shared environment, where virtual objects are merged into real world in real time so as to enhance reality perception. However, the virtual-real mixture images are displayed in monitors, instead of in real-world environment. To solve this problem, this paper develops an interactive holography system to provide stereoscopic AR display in real environment. We utilize a web-camera to capture user’s gesture at the holographic stage. The virtual objects are merged into the actual environment by a holographic projection. To realize the interaction between user and virtual objects, we proposed a collision detection method between the user’s hand motion and the virtual objects. The proposed system enables intuitive AR-based multimedia gaming and entertainment applications.