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What is Augmented Reality?

Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that overlays graphics and information onto a real-time view of the world. This differs from virtual reality, where everything you see is simulated.

At the heart of an AR system is the graphics display. It needs to display information, without obstructing your view. Currently, smart glasses, tablets, phones, and visors are being used to accomplish this. In the future, contact lenses, holograms, or brain-machine interfaces could be used.

Behind the scenes, an AR system needs to make sense of what is in view of the user, and have the applicable information available to display. That requires a head-mounted camera and a computer with access to the cloud.

Augmented reality systems can be used for marketing, computing, education, gaming, travel, training and more. Augmented reality will likely become popular long before virtual reality, because AR has more practical applications than VR, and it takes less computing power.

 


 

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