Chapter 1
What Is Augmented Reality?
Information in this chapter:
• What is Augmented Reality?
• How Augmented Reality Works
• A History of Augmented Reality
• Augmented Reality of Today
• The Differences between Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
• Challenges with Augmented Reality
• The Opportunities for Augmented Reality
The Definition of Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality (AR) is a variation of a Virtual Environment (VE), or Virtual Reality (VR) as it is more commonly called. Virtual Reality technologies completely immerse a user inside a synthetic environment and while immersed, the user cannot see the real world around him. In contrast, Augmented Reality is taking digital or computer generated information, whether it be images, audio, video, ...
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