NHE: Collaborative Virtual Environment with Augmented Reality on Web

Abstract

Interfaces in two dimensions, like buttons and menus, are been used for 35 years. Technologies have been developed to extend interfaces for tridimensional environment. One of them, called Augmented Reality, is being viewed due to the ease on interaction with the virtual environment. By other side, due to complexity of human tasks, people are getting together to perform tasks through collaborative groups, named groupware. This article proposes a system that does collaboration and has easy interactivity and immersion, by using augmented reality resources. This integration is not so easy to find out on current market, and it is a great motivation for this innovation. The project can help several areas like, for example, distance education, engineering, architecture and marketing. Results show the viability of the system, and its efficiency in applications that needs easy manipulation of projects and high degree of immersion of users, offering facility to activities at real time, without network congestion and in a collaborative way.