The AR Workbench: A Complete Co-located Reach-in Mirror-Based ...

PREFACE
Marlon Richert, Master’s Thesis, Friday, 23 February, 2007
This is my Master’s thesis. It describes the thesis project I worked on at the
MedICLab of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Spain. I did this as part of
the Master of Science program of Media & Knowledge Engineering at Delft University
of Technology in the Netherlands. The project consisted of creating a colocated
reach-in mirror-based see-through augmented reality (AR) solution with which the
MedICLab will be able to create AR versions of some of their existing virtual reality
applications, as well realize new ideas of AR projects they have. It has been a long
and arduous road and many cultural differences and language barriers have blocked
my path, but I have arrived.
Some acknowledgements are in order. I would like to thank Charles van der Mast
for being my advisor; we may have gotten off on a rocky start, but his guidance
proved invaluable in the end. I would like to thank all of the wonderful people at
MedICLab, especially José Lozano and Javier Montesa, for their hospitality and
assistance; MedICLab also provided me with those fine photographs of the
workbench that you may find in this thesis. I would like to thank Ivo Timmermans
for proofreading the near-final manuscript and giving me invaluable feedback. I
would like to thank Kirsi Virtanen en Jenni Leminen for being such good friends;
without their help and support, I would have never been able to finish this thesis.
Finally, I would like to thank myself for finally setting me free of the educational
system. Thank you.
—Marlon Richert, Rijswijk ZH, the Netherlands, February 2007
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