What is Augmented Reality

A form of virtual reality (VR) technology where computer-generated images are superimposed upon physical environments by means of a viewing device. Also abbreviated AR. Learn more in: The Intersection of Digital Humanities and Artistic Augmented/Virtual Reality Research in Hong Kong

Is a technique of displaying a representation of a real-world environment with additional information layered on top of it. This technique of stacked information layers aims to augment the view into the real world environment with additional information. The display system of augmented reality is mostly a real-time camera generated image stream with an additional computer generated information layer on top of the camera image. Learn more in: Time-Windows: Reconnecting the Window-Metaphor of the GUI to Real Space

Intermixing a physical reality and a virtual reality Learn more in: HyperReality

AR integrates real life with modified and enhanced images or virtual objects. AR is generally achieved by the use of mobile devices to provide a composite experience or view through digital components combined with the real world. Learn more in: Application of Virtual and Augmented Reality for Training and Mentoring of Higher Education Instructors

This facilitates a better understanding of the real world and permits the integration of virtual elements that help to complement real resources. Learn more in: Augmented Reality for Smart Tourism in Religious Heritage Itineraries: Tourism Experiences in the Technological Age

The technology that simultaneously combines real and virtual objects that are interactive in real-time and are registered in a three-dimensional space. Learn more in: Mixing Different Realities in a Single Shared Space: Analysis of Mixed-Platform Collaborative Shared Spaces

The term refers to a simulated, but enhanced, reality that combines both computer-generated virtual and real-world data to enable users to perform real-time interactions with computer-generated graphics, imagery, and objects, in a seamless way and with an illusion of these layers of information coexisting in the same space. Learn more in: Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality Applications in Cause-Related Marketing (CRM)

The use of mobile-device “add-ons” in real-time and real-space to enhance the user’s ability to interact with that space for learning. Learn more in: Designing Automated Learning for Effective Training and Skills Development

Is a field of information technology research which represents the possibility of illustrating real and virtual images together. The goal of augmented reality is to add information and meaning to a real object or place. Unlike virtual reality, augmented reality does not create a simulation of reality. Augmented reality is an environment that includes both virtual reality and real-world elements. Learn more in: Navigation Becomes Travel Scouting: The Augmented Spaces of Car Navigation Systems

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Involves having virtual things (e.g., text, 3D models, avatars, animations etc.) on real things Learn more in: Virtual Museums: Platforms, Practices, Prospect

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Superimposing virtual objects into the user’s view of the real world, performed in real time and with correct alignment on physical and virtual components. Learn more in: A Client/Server Architecture for Augmented Assembly on Mobile Phones

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Some kind of reality in which virtual world based elements – objects are added to the real world based environment. Learn more in: Augmented Reality Based E-Learning Applications

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The use of a technological medium to display virtual information “on top” of the real world. Learn more in: The Theory and Process Involved with Educational Augmented Reality Game Design

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A technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user’s view of the real world, thus providing a composite view. Learn more in: Private Label Sales through Catalogs with Augmented Reality

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A type of instructional technology that enables the user to view digital content overlaid to a representation of the real-world environment. Learn more in: Augmented Reality in Informal Learning Settings: Leveraging Technology for the Love of History

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Augmented Reality (AR) defined as enhancement of the real environment by computer-generated content allows its users to see the real world together with an additional virtual world added in real time to the same field of view. Learn more in: Augmented Reality: Applications and Implications for Tourism

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A system that supplements the real world with virtual (computer-generated) objects that appear to coexist in the same space as the real world. Learn more in: An Initial Framework to Develop a Mobile Five Human Senses Augmented Reality System for Museums

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Real time integration between digital information, with live video and the user's environment. Learn more in: A Framework Supported by Modeling and Virtual/Augmented Reality for the Preservation and Dynamization of Archeological-Historical Sites

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A view of a real environment augmented by computer generated information, such as graphic, texts, virtual reconstructions. Learn more in: Multimedia Experiences for Cultural Heritage

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Commonly abbreviated as AR is a technical term to refer to the technology that is able to create a completely artificial and virtual environment blending computer-generated audio, image, video, and even haptic information with the physical world in a real time. The term, augmented, refers to the technology-enabled augmentation of a user’s real and virtual world to create a new reality. Learn more in: Reality-Creating Technologies as a Global Phenomenon

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Refers to computer-generated imagery that is visible through the use of virtual visualization where the images are overlaid onto real-life surfaces in the present environment. Learn more in: Pedagogical Issues and Challenges for Cross-Cultural Online Instruction

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The overlay of computer generated images on the physical environment. Learn more in: Online Learning's Future in the Workplace with Augmented Reality

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Augmented reality (AR) is a field of research in computer science which tries to blend sensations of the real world with computer-generated content. While most AR applications use computer graphics as their primary output, they are not constrained by definition to visual output—audible or tangible representations could also be used. A widely accepted set of requirements of AR applications is given by Azuma (2001 AU7: The in-text citation "Azuma (2001" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ): • AR applications combine sensations of the real world with virtual content. • AR applications are interactive in real-time • AR applications are registered in the 3-dimensional space of the real world Learn more in: Towards a Taxonomy of Display Styles for Ubiquitous Multimedia

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Overlapping virtual objects with a physical environment in order to provide additional information to people in the environment Learn more in: Virtual Cities for Simulating Smart Urban Public Spaces

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A field of computer research which deals with the combination of the real world with computer generated data. Learn more in: Mobile Camera-Based User Interaction

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AR supplements the real world with virtual (computer-generated) objects that appear to coexist in the same space as the real world. An AR system has 3 characteristics: 1. Combines real and virtual worlds; 2. Information is interactive in real time, and; 3. Registered in 3-D Learn more in: Augmented Reality and the Future of Virtual Workspaces

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Augmented Reality is a new form of communication that allows to observe reality ‘augmented’ with digital contents situated in context. These can be accessed through the webcam or through the camera of mobile devices, such as smartphones or tablet. This innovation turns the relationship between real and virtual into a widespread, pervasive and impressively concrete phenomenon. Learn more in: Territorial Knowledge, National Identities, Social Media, a Case Study: 150DIGIT - Italy of Schools

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This is the use of technology to enhance a user’s perception of reality and involves being aware of context and communicating context; this is a key part of human interaction. Learn more in: Context Awareness in Mobile Devices

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A design philosophy of computer-human interaction in which elements of the physical world may be viewed or sensed in enriched ways, often by the user wearing or employing specialized technology for that purpose. In many cases, the physical objects may be “tagged” in ways that allow the user (when suitably equipped) to view additional information about the object. Learn more in: Sensory Extension as a Tool for Cognitive Learning

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The enrichment of sensorial perception of a subject through the use of 3D architectural models integrated in a dynamic scene. In this case the augmented reality is focused in the definition of scenes reconstruction of disappeared architectures. Learn more in: Communication, Technology, and Digital Culture for the Conservation and Enhancement of the Architectural Heritage

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A real-world environment that is supplemented with computer-generated elements. Learn more in: Game Design Frameworks and Reality Guides

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Augmented Reality is an advanced display technology, defined by Tori, Kirner and Ciscouto (2006, p. 10) AU35: The in-text citation "Tori, Kirner and Ciscouto (2006, p. 10)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. as “[...] enrich the real environment with virtual objects using a technological device, working in real time.” Learn more in: Transiting between Representation Technologies and Teaching/Learning Descriptive Geometry: Reflections in an Architectural Context

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An interactive system that adds virtual objects to real environments in an attempt to integrate virtual and real objects. Learn more in: Augmented Reality as a Tool to Enhance the Experiential Value of Online Shopping: The Future of Fashion Retailing

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A reality where real and virtual worlds are merged seamlessly, and individuals in a specific place and time, use the real environment augmented with computer generated virtual objects. Learn more in: Augmented Reality in Healthcare

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Real time integration between digital information, with live video and the user's environment. Learn more in: Developments of Serious Games in Education

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A view, in real-time, of the environment overlapped with computer-generated sensory components. Learn more in: Wearable Computers

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A live direct or indirect view of a physical and real-world environment where the elements are augmented by computer-generated input such as sound, video, graphics, etc. Learn more in: Literature Review of Augmented Reality Application in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industry With Relation to Building Information

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The blending of physical and digital worlds, often with a virtual overlay on a physical item. Learn more in: Mobile Learning in and out of the K-12 Classroom

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A technological way to access digital information integrated in the user’s environment, in real time, using, normally, apps designed for mobile devices. Learn more in: Interactive Technologies in Museums: How Digital Installations and Media Are Enhancing the Visitors' Experience

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It is a modern technology that involved the overlay of computer graphics on the real-world application. Learn more in: A Big Data Framework for Decision Making in Supply Chain

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Augmented Reality (AR) into GIS assures the link between the perception of user and the relationship with the real world. The real world is represented with 2D and 3D virtual information. The computer augments the actual landscape with additional information that can be supported by inserting fields based on GIS applications. Learn more in: Geographic Information Systems

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This term indicates an enhancement of human sensorial perception usually thanks to the merger of computer-generated information not perceivable by our five human senses. The elements that “augment” reality can be added using a mobile device, e.g., a smartphone, a personal computer equipped with a webcam or other sensors, vision devices (e.g., glasses to protect the retina), listening devices (earphones) and manipulation devices (gloves) which add multimedia data to normally perceived reality. In actual fact, to present a clearer or more amusing picture, this additional information can consist in a reduction of the quantity of data normally perceived by the senses. Learn more in: New Fruition Possibilities for the Historical Archive of Architectural Drawings in Rome

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technology that adds computer-generated content to the user's view of the real world. Learn more in: The State of Virtual and Augmented Reality Therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

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A technology that allows the live integration of digital content into the physical real world, in order to enrich the users’ environment and experience. Learn more in: E-Learning and Augmented Reality (AR) for Chronic Wound Assessment: Promoting Learning and Quality of Care

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Presents virtual information alongside real information. Learn more in: Design the Technological Society for an Aging Population

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Interactive computer-generated experience that occurs in a simulated environment that makes the experience closer to the real world. It adds graphics, sounds, haptic feedback, and smell to the natural world as it exists. Learn more in: Edutainment With Flipped IDEAS

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The integration of digital information with the user's environment in real time. Unlike virtual reality, which creates a totally artificial environment, augmented reality uses the existing environment and overlays new information on top of it. Learn more in: Flip-Game Engineering and Technology Methodology

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An existing environment with digital information overlaid. Learn more in: Altered Realities: How Virtual and Augmented Realities Are Supporting Learning

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Computer programs that augment reality rather than replacing it. Users are still aware of their surroundings. Learn more in: The Human Resource Implications of Computers

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A new technology that involves overlaying the real world with digital information. It will further blur the line between what is real and what is computer generated by enhancing what we see, hear, feel, and smell. Learn more in: Deploying Pervasive Technologies

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A computer generated program which combines elements from the real world with elements of computer generated scenarios. Learn more in: User Interface Issues in Multimedia

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The term which defines combined reality which is possible with applications in devices such as specially produced glasses, or smart phones, tablet and formed with intertwinement of reality and visual reality. Learn more in: A Model for Mind-Device Dialectic and the Future of Advertising in the Social Media Age

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Augmented reality (AR) is a type of technology in which computers generate images which are superimposed onto any surface to enhance the issue of concern. Learn more in: Augmented Reality Advertisements in Tourism Marketing

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Representation system that integrates computer generated images with the vision of the real world. It doesn't isolate the user from the real world, but rather complements him by virtual objects generated by computer, in a world that is made up of real and virtual objects. It increases perception and user interaction with the environment by providing visual information that the user could not directly detect with his own senses. The virtual world is virtually enriched with additional textual and graphic information, synchronized and generated by the computer. The objective is to increase the visual perception of physical space with images of virtual space in which the user can move freely in the scene, with the ability to interact with it. Learn more in: The Surveying and Representation Process Applied to Architecture: Non-Contact Methods for the Documentation of Cultural Heritage

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Augmented reality (AR) is an emerging technology blending physical objects with virtual reality. Learn more in: New Visual Literacies and Competencies for Education and the Workplace

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Is the integration of additional digital information via live video or photographs into the consumer’s visual environment in real time. Learn more in: Fashion-Technology and Change in Product Development and Consumption for the High-end Menswear Sector: A Study Utilizing a 3D-4C's Process Model

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The technology of viewing of virtual elements overlaid on the real world with the help of computer processing. Learn more in: Sixth Sense Technology: Exploring Future Opportunities in Human Computer Interaction

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Mix of real and virtualized information by a computer, combining the three spatial dimensions, with the aim to create a graphical and digital model complementary to the information present in the real world. Learn more in: Virtual Territorial Heritage in Education through mLearning Resources: Cities of Salamanca Spain and Santiago of Chile

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Augmented reality is a live view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented or supplemented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. With the help of advanced AR technology, e.g. adding computer vision and object recognition, the information about the surrounding real world of the user becomes interactive and digitally manipulable. Learn more in: The MuseBot Project: Robotics, Informatic, and Economics Strategies for Museums

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A supplemented environment where real and physical objects are viewed directly or indirectly via computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. Learn more in: Mobile Learning: Content Format and Packaging for Effective Teaching and Learning in a Learner-Centered Pedagogy

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This technology is regarded as the later stage of Virtual Reality (VR). Following this technology, a human as a user interacts with a computer generated environment that augments reality. Learn more in: Augmented Reality for Tourist Destination Image Formation

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Technology that merges the real world with virtual objects to support. Learn more in: Preparing Teachers for Mobile Learning Applications Grounded in Research and Pedagogical Frameworks

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It refers to a fusion between real and virtual worlds ( Azuma, 1997 ). More precisely augmented reality adds relevant information to the perception of the surrounding environment. This dynamic information increase perceived details and facilitate learning, motivation or cooperation between users. Learn more in: Ubiquitous, Wearable, Mobile: Paradigm Shifts in E-Learning and Diffusion of Knowledge

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The use of transparent glasses on which a computer displays data so that the viewer can simultaneously view computer generated and real world scenes. Learn more in: Integrating Virtual Reality Tools Into Classroom Instruction

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A technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view. Learn more in: Supporting Pre-Service Teachers' Understanding and Use of Mobile Devices

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This facilitates a better understanding of the real world and permits the integration of virtual elements that help to complement real resources. Learn more in: Religious Tourism Experience Model (RTEM): A Recommendation Model for Dissemination of Cultural and Religious Heritage

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Augmented Reality (AR) defined as enhancement of the real environment by computer-generated content allows its users to see the real world together with an additional virtual world added in real time to the same field of view. Learn more in: Applying an Augmented Reality Tool to the Camino de Santiago in Portugal

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Technology that allows virtual information to be visualized and manipulated mixed with the real world around the user. Learn more in: The Use of Augmented Reality as a Teaching Tool

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Technology that has the ability to merge real world and virtual world by combining human senses with virtual objects. Learn more in: Design of a Web3D Serious Game for Human Anatomy Education: A Web3D Game for Human Anatomy Education

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A technology that allows seamlessly displaying virtual information blended with the real world with a spatial connection between the virtual and the real objects. Learn more in: A Mobile Augmented Reality System for Enhancing Electrical Machine Supervision

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A technology that allows real-time overlapping of digital content to real-world objects or environments. At present, is widely available to designers, by using Web 2.0 tools requiring no programming skills, and to users by using mobile computing devices such as smartphones or tablets. Learn more in: Augmented Reality in Informal Learning Environments: A Music History Exhibition

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Is the expansion of physical reality by adding layers of computer-generated information to the actual environment. AR is reality modified by technology. Learn more in: Digital Transformation: Impact of 5G Technology in Supply Chain Industry

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The integration of digital information with the user's environment in real time where the objects that reside in the real-world are “augmented” by computer-generated perceptual information via visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory, and olfactory sensory modalities. Learn more in: Virtual and Augmented Reality in Medical Education and Training: Innovative Ways for Transforming Medical Education in the 21st Century

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The term which defines combined reality which is possible with applications in devices such as specially produced glasses, or smart phones, tablet and formed with intertwinement of reality and visual reality. Learn more in: An Analytical Review on Fundamental Narrative Components and Their Reflections in Advertising

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The technology that simultaneously combines real and virtual objects that are interactive in real-time and are registered in a three-dimensional space. Learn more in: Augmented Reality-Based Training Systems for Teaching Health and Safety Procedures in Construction

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Digital objects that are perceived as a person's perception of the real world. Learn more in: Systematic Evaluation of Innovative Pedagogies in Teacher Education Courses and Practica

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