They develop a system that combines virtual and augmented reality technologies for ceramic products

The Institute of Robotics and Communications Technologies (Irtic) of the Universitat de València has developed for the company TAU Cerámica a novel system that combines virtual reality and augmented reality technologies for the presentation of ceramic products.

The Institute of Robotics and Communications Technologies (Irtic) of the Universitat de València (Uv), in the Science Park of the institution, has developed a novel low-cost system that combines virtual reality and augmented reality technologies aimed at the presentation of ceramic products.

This system is the result of about two years of work and has been financed by the tile company TAU Cerámica, which aims to integrate it in the short term as part of its trading platform into its network of stores, as reported by the UV in a statement.

The computer system developed consists of a contactless point of sale with a screen of 50 inches controlled by a Microsoft Kinect-like device. This system allows the user to touch any element of the point of sale without the user, and even using real parts with QR-CODE tags, this one can visualize the collection of ceramic pieces of the company TAU Cerámica based on photorealistic image.

The selection of tiles, environments and product information is made from a novel multimodal gestural interface developed by Irtic for Kinect devices. As a complement to the point of sale, this application has been migrated to run on Ipad2 tablets and compatible Android tablets (Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Motorola Xoom 10, Sony Tablet S, Etc.).

To achieve the technological migration and the development of this multiplatform tool, innovative techniques have been used that allow the visualization of very high resolution image on mobile devices. These applications are currently available for download by the general public on the portals 'Android Market’ 1 and 'Apple Store’ 2.

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