Linked by Kroc on Wed 7th Mar 2007 18:20 UTC
Geek stuff, sci-fi... Augmented Reality is the overlapping of digital information and physical environment. Sci-Fi has often portrayed A.R. as interactive floating transparent computer screens projected into the air, or perhaps the most absolute example: standing inside an entirely computer generated world.
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Is this really AR?
by brecht on Wed 7th Mar 2007 19:01 UTC
brecht
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2006-06-02

Having more natural/direct controllers is one thing, but it seems to me that integration of graphics is vital for something to be really called AR, i.e. augmenting a view on the real world with computer graphics. With the Wii and iPhone everything you see is still on a separate screen. It's cool but it doesn't fit the definition of 'augmented reality' in my opinion.