Hi all,

I am collecting info for some writing about the history and pre-history of
the ARToolkit.

Can anyone point me to some papers that have inspired them in terms of their
work in augmented reality?

Once I get a list of references going, I will post it to the list.

I am also interested in what you consider the first augmented reality
systems.

...and also, what are the earliest examples of tracking using fiducial
markers.

The ubiquitous (pre-pda meaning of the word used here!) ARToolkit markers
are, I think, something Dr. Kato figured out for himself because he needed
some way of doing it. Jun Rekimoto of Sony had a similar kind of tracking
system too.

Can anyone point me to other earlier stuff?

Best wishes and thanks,

Rod.


Rodney Berry
ATR Media Information Science Laboratories
Kyoto Japan
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