Exploring the Design Space of Employing AI-Generated Content for Augmented Reality Display

As the two most common display content of Augmented Reality (AR), the creation process of image and text often requires a human to execute. However, due to the rapid advances in AI, today the media content can be automatically generated by software. The ever-improving quality of AI-generated content (AIGC) has opened up new scenarios employing such content, which is expected to be applied in AR. In this paper, we attempt to explore the design space for projecting AI-generated image and text into an AR display. Specifically, we perform an exploratory study and suggest a ``user-function-environment'' design thinking by building a preliminary prototype and conducting focus groups based on it. With the early insights presented, we point out the design space and potential applications for combining AIGC and AR.