augmented reality

augmented reality (countable and uncountable, plural augmented realities)

1. (computing) The merging of a view of the real-world environment upon a digital image in real time.

   Synonym: AR

   • 1997 August, Ronald T. Azuma, “A Survey of Augmented Reality”, in Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments‎, volume 6, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 355–385:

     Augmented Reality enhances a user's perception of and interaction with the real world. The virtual objects display information that the user cannot directly detect with his own senses.

   • 2019 February 22, Julia Carrie Wong, “‘We won't be war profiteers’: Microsoft workers protest $480m army contract”, in The Guardian‎:

     Microsoft workers are calling on their employer to cancel a $480m contract to provide the US army with augmented reality (AR) headsets, saying they “do not want to become war profiteers”.

• mixed reality

• augmented virtuality
• reality / real reality (RR)
• virtual reality (VR)
• supranet