Beaming AR: A Compact Environment-Based Display System for Battery-Free Augmented Reality

Beaming AR demonstrates a new approach to augmented reality (AR) that fundamentally rethinks the conventional all-in-one headmounted display paradigm. Instead of integrating power-hungry components into headwear, our system relocates projectors, processors, and power sources to a compact environment-mounted unit, allowing users to wear only lightweight, battery-free light-receiving glasses with retroreflective markers. Our demonstration features a bench-top projection-tracking setup combining steerable laser projection and co-axial infrared tracking. Conference attendees can experience this technology firsthand through a receiving glasses, demonstrating how environmental hardware offloading could lead to more practical and comfortable AR displays.