Life-sized Group and Crowd simulation in Mobile AR

When referring to augmented reality characters, their actual size comparing to their physical surroundings is an important factor responsible for creating more realistic and immersive environments. By creating life-sized augmented characters we are able to present them in real time with real characters and create applications where both real and digital characters co-exist, in 'life-size' dimensions, as opposed to mostly small-scale AR characters. In this work, we have created AR crowd and group simulations with life-sized augmented characters that simulate crowd behavior with real human locomotive motions and body gestures.