Augmented Reality
The Real World How you Want it to Be
What is Augmented Reality?
Augmented Reality is the real world, but enhanced that is achieved through sensory stimuli
to help the person using it feel like it is real. This technology lets images be displayed
into the real world via a screen.
Companies like Pokemon Go use a camera of the real world and project a digital
image of different pokemon onto the screen so it looks like they are really there. |
How it Works
First, when a phone is pointed at an object, the software recongizes it through a technology called computer vision.
The software then downloads information on said object to be projected, like a web browser uses an URL to pull up a website.
Then the software then projects the image onto the screen whatever it may be. The differnce between AR and VR is that AR
is in 3D while VR is only 2D.
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Examples
Furniture Companies are using AR to project the customers furniture of choice into their house on
their phone to see if they like the piece of furniture or if the colors match, etc.
VR companies are using AR to make games that look like the real world with digital images that make it a game.
AR in VR also can help you solve probems like showing simulations of what would happen with different outcomes.
Companies like SnapChat that use face filters use Augmented Reality to display the filter onto your face.
It also use advanced technology that captures your face and records your facial expressions for different AR filters.
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Augmented Reality VS Virtual Reality
A lot of people confuse AR and VR because they
both have the same idea, but are different in
ways that seem small but are very large.
AR is the real environment, with digital images
that are taken and projected onto the screen you
are using, so it looks like it is really there through the screen
VR is a comepletly digital environment that you can see through VR glasses, also with digital
images projected onto the screen to make an experience like no other. Examples include Beat Saber and Rec Room.
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