COVID-19 Public Health Measures: An Augmented Reality Perspective

Considering the overall situation of the current pandemic and pertinent recommendations, this book focuses on the use of augmented reality (AR) applications for COVID-19 outbreak along with techniques, tools, and platforms to achieve social distancing and sanitization. It contains theoretical and practical knowledge of AR and remedies on how to cope with the technology including multiple use cases along with a set of recommendations. It illustrates application building using opensource software with an interactive interface to aid the impaired users. The initial part of the book emphasizes on the basic knowledge of AR, technology, devices, and rest of the relevant theories. Aimed at researchers, students in AR, technical healthcare professionals, and practitioners, this book Focusses on realization and visualization of Covid-19 pandemic using AR. Discusses how different AR visualization techniques are implemented in different scenarios. Provides in-depth knowledge of AR databases and IDEs such as Unity Engine, Unreal Engine, and Vuforia. Describes C# programming language and the importance of it in developing useful AR applications. Helps normal and impaired users to understand augmented technology for COVID-19.