AR breathes new life into the 100 year old Pfaff sewing machine

Augmented Reality Application Augmented things has the German Research Center for Artificial intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern an over 100 year old Pfaff Sewing Machine breathed new life into it. So if you no longer know how to operate the good old sewing machine, you can get information on how to use it via smartphone or tablet.

As part of the exhibition 50 years of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern Since September 12, 2020, the DFKI research area Augmented Reality in the Theodor Zink Museum Kaiserslautern together with the Open Digitization Alliance Pfalz (OD Pfalz) has been showing that such technologies are not only used in new devices or in industry.

Pfaff sewing machine as an Augmented Things application

Using the example of the Pfaff sewing machine from 1912 the researchers make it clear that everyday objects or old objects can also be brought to life virtually. Augmented Things vividly combines modern with traditional technology. With the Augmented Things application, the two institutions show the universal interface for the IoT (Internet of Things).

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Appropriate information about the viewed object is displayed in the user's camera image. The information comes from a chip on the object and is transferred via Bluetooth retrieved. This means that the system is independent of the Internet or data on the mobile device. It recognizes the object from any angle. This makes it very intuitive and natural to search for additional information.