Mona Lisa’s Long Nose

In 2015 TU Graz researcher Clemens Arth founded the start-up AR4.io, a company specialized in augmented reality solutions for industry. But what does this have to do with Mona Lisa's nose?. This can be explained easily by juxtaposing data glasses, for example Google's smart glasses, to augmented reality. If I look at the Mona Lisa with data glasses, I will be presented with explanatory text in my field of vision. However, visual augmented reality goes far beyond that - it adds to and changes the reality perceived with a mobile telephone or a head-mounted display (HMD). Let me illustrate this with an example. With visual augmented reality we are able to draw a long nose on Mona Lisa, virtually and in real time, and we can seamlessly integrate the manipulation into the displayed augmented reality.