Fast Simulations in Augmented Reality

Augmented reality may soon revolutionize the world we live in. The incorporation of computer simulations into augmented reality glasses opens new perspectives for the perception of reality. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of performing numerical simulations in real time within augmented reality glasses. We present the technology that can be successfully employed in the real-life simulations of the Partial Differential Equations (PDE) based phenomena. We designed and implemented a two- and three-dimensional explicit dynamics solver in Lens Studio using Finite Difference Method (FDM) on the augmented reality glasses. We performed tests on the computational cost, memory usage, and the capability of performing real-life simulations of advection-diffusion and wave propagation problems.