On Visual Artifacts of Physics Simulation in Augmented Reality Environment

Abstract

Due to the incomparable ability to increase realism in synthesizing the motion of virtual objects, physics simulation is increasingly adopted in augmented reality (AR) applications. In this paper, we show with experiments that, if physics simulation is naively employed in AR applications, visual artifacts diminishing the realism of a scene may occur when real and virtual objects collide. This is due to the intrinsic limitation of AR in that virtual objects cannot apply forces to the real objects. We discuss possible methods to alleviate this artifacts.