Reality Editor: MIT augmented reality system to connect with the Internet of Things

A team from MIT Media Lab, the research laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has developed this augmented reality app that makes it easy to connect and manage the functions of smart devices and objects simply by running this system.

Three years of research by a team from MIT Media Lab have resulted Reality Editor, an application (still in testing) that combines augmented reality technology with the Internet of Things (IoT) and with which it is possible to perform numerous functions that can be programmed and managed very easily on the different smart devices that are used every day with this app.

This open source tool available for download on the App Store works, currently in its testing version, with QR codes that stick to the devices and physical objects that we want to connect and manage.

For example, All you have to do is capture the object in question with the QR code through a smartphone camera and its capabilities will be visible to draw a virtual line from one object to another and connect them. (see attached video).

Reality Editor thus shows all the functions of the object on the user's smartphone, which acts as a control panel, and that allows you to configure and customize the functions that are displayed to your needs and thus create connections with other devices and objects, giving maximum control to the user.

The developers at the MIT Media Lab have pointed out that the evolution of this hybrid augmented reality and IoT application involves integrating object recognition technology to replace the QR codes that the system currently needs., as well as improve spatial coordination, for its simple and natural application in the domestic and professional environment.

Each visual interface is based on HTML5, so take advantage of the creative power of the web, so Reality Editor transforms intuitive web browsing technologies that are continually used into an interface for physical space, while the connection between objects uses open Internet standards, defining simple actions, changing the functionality of the objects around us and how they interact.

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