Augmented reality, is changing how we see the world. Augmented reality isn’t a new technology by any means. However, it is gaining popularity as the hardware and software that allows us to view our world through a new prospective becomes increasingly cheaper. As technology progresses, processers and circuits become smaller and smaller in size. Thus allowing for more capability from various forms of hardware like phones, computers, glasses, contacts, and even your car. All these devices have screens, or windows in which we look at our world, and with cleaver programs, software, and hardware, integrated into these modes which we view the world. The way which we see the world around us will forever change based on our own interests thanks to augmented reality. However, the question we have to ask ourselves is, is ability to overlay our world with whatever we please a good thing, or a bad thing?
The story of augmented reality goes back as far as the early 1900’s when L. Frank Baum wrote the “novel The Master Key. Printed in 1901, the book mentions a “character marker” set of electronic spectacles that when you view someone through them would show a letter on that person’s forehead regarding their character.” However, the first invention to use some type of augmented reality would not come along till 1968 and Ivan E. Sutherland and his head mounted three dimensional display. “The fundamental idea behind the three-dimensional display is to present the user with a perspective image which changes as he moves.” This would allow for an illusion of 3D on a 2D plane. This however, wasn’t true augmented reality; yes this augmented what you see on a screen and gave an illusion of 3 dimensions, but it does not overlay actual reality with com...
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...owing you things that you would not normally see in reality, makes this augmented reality, but a fully immersive augmented reality, or what Sulon Technologies calls, “extreme reality.”
Gaming allows for other applications to be applied augmented reality. “Augmented reality can help in training, such as learning how to weld aided by a 3D environment that tracks user movements precisely. Seabery Augmented Training's Soldamatic application… could be used for medical training, bomb disposal and other industry verticals.” Another field that could benefit from AR technologies is the medical field, more specifically the surgical field.
Moving into the future projections for augmented reality usage in the mobile market is expected to increase in fact, “Mobile analyst Tomi Ahonen expects AR to be adopted by a billion users by 2020. Intel is betting that AR will be big.”
Google Glass is a new form of technology that has heads turning everywhere. Glass is a wearable computing device with a frame-like construction that is comparable to everyday glasses. The frame consists of nose pads, a touchpad, and a small heads-up display that lies just above the right eye. The problem is not the device itself, but what the device is capable of. A camera lies beside the displa...
It currently is weak in several areas such as portability, outdoor use, calibration, depth perception, overload, over reliance and social acceptance (Van Krevelen, D.W.F. & Poelman, R, 2010). In his TED Talk, Meron Gribetz really emphasizes that in order to make that happen as we proceed with developing augmented reality, we need to “…really try and make an effort to imagine how we can create this new reality in a way that extends the human experience, instead of gamifying our reality or cluttering it with digital information.”(Gribetz, 2016). By acknowledging that this evolving technology is more than a game, we are allowing it to becoming more natural extension of our bodies, paving the way for technology that extends our reality, instead of limiting our senses - otherwise known as
Virtual reality can be used as an educational tool to assist not only students but teachers as well. Another major benefit of virtual reality is its use in the healthcare field. It can be used to treat several medical conditions such as anxiety disorders, mental health issues such as phobias, and it can even be used as a pain reliever (Matheison, 2017).
Google glass capabilty to augment reality makes it probable to become widely used and be one of the most promising ”wearable computing” device. The augmented reality in google glass can be used in practical scenarios such as translating and presenting text to the user in realtime, or can be used as navigation system by showing location of the user on the map.
So what are other things VR is being used for today? Well according to the article titled “Beyond Gaming: 10 Other Fascinating Uses for Virtual-Reality Tech” By Knvul Sheikh ( a staff writer for livescience.com) there are a heedful of other things that are being done with VR. So let’s go over some of them. Well one of the things that Sheikh talks about is Space and how astronauts have been using VR. One of the things that they are doing is that they are using VR technology to control robots on Mars. They also added a Virtuix Omni treadmill to their VR setup and now researchers are able to simulate a walk on Mars to prepare astronauts for a potential human landing. (Sheikh,
In today's world, technology is constantly changing from a new paperclip to an improvement in hospital machinery. Technology lets people improve the way they live so that they can preserve their own personal energy and focus on the really important factors in life. Some people focus their energy on making new innovations to improve transportation and the health of people that may save lives and some people focus on making new designs of packaging CDS. Technology is significant in everyone's life because it rapidly changes what is in the market. But, some new innovations of technology are ridiculous because they serve no purpose in helping mankind.
Since the Industrial Revolution, technology has become an essential tool in human life. Technology impacted lives in society by offering a way to “multitask” by using two or more technological devices. Technology and internet offers the facility to do homework faster through Google, while listening to music on Pandora or YouTube. Sometimes, you can even talk on the phone while you listen to music and do homework. All you need in order to multitask is to have all the technological devices needed. Many people consider technology as a positive change in our lives, because of the facilities it offers us. However, many other persons, like Christine Rosen, think that technology instead of improving our lives, it has only changed it negatively. Technology, in fact has provided us with many facilities, however such facilities are affecting our interactions with the physical space.
A common misconception is that virtual reality is just for entertainment. As we contemplate about some of the technology involved in virtual reality, entertainment is generally the first thing a lot of people think of when virtual reality springs to mind, but here we will talk about some of the other areas that virtual reality has made some substantial differences.
Augmented Reality (AR) is a real time direct or indirect view of the physical real world that is enhanced or augmented with computer generated information. AR is both interactive and registered in 3D, combining real and virtual objects. AR enhances a user’s perception of the real world and the way they interact with it. The augmented Reality’s main purpose is simplifying the user’s life, by bringing virtual information to their immediate surroundings through an indirect view of the real-world environment. Although augmented reality is like Virtual reality (VR), AR is an enhanced view of the real world, where VR is a pure virtual environment.
The whole in Chapter 2 is a critical literature review. In this chapter, it discussed on the VR and types of VR. In addition, it also discussed on the AR area include components, display, issues, definition, differential VR and VR. This also covered that cognitive development theory, learning theory, and learing style. All reviews are followed with the implication for each topic to this study.
Augmented Reality – Linking Real and Virtual Worlds. Rep. University of Southern California, n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2013.
A source indicates that researches have shown that if augmented reality will be applied, it may enhance the educational level of the students. Thus, augmented reality still has its dilemmas such as the costs of its development and maintenance. Meanwhile, augmented reality is being developed to be used in the daily real life easily. Due to the development of the new computers and the applications tha...
There are various ways that have been in apply in education by using virtual reality, this happens because the process of education nowadays uses more technology than using the old way like drawing manually. It is also to attract students and to familiarize school students with a variety of existing software that has been designed for ease in education. Virtual reality in education also aims to facilitate the learning process and aims to train the students to be more proficient in using virtual reality software.
There is no denying the fact that VR is the future. If you see industry trends, the rate at which VR is becoming mainstream is staggering as almost 75% of the biggest corporations are now investing in this technology. They see the potential and the interest the people have and are constantly working on improving the current virtual reality systems.
Augmented reality (AR) is the virtual object which is combination of 3D real environment in the real time. It is more interactive either with graphics or audio enhancing from what we can sense such smell, hear, see or feel it. In other words, it is duplicate the environment around the world in computer. There are applications in various areas in augmented reality and one of them is medical visualization more domain for augmented reality. The topic that discussed is augmented reality application in computer aided surgery and medicine. In research article (Tobias Sielhorst, Marco Feuerstein & Nassir Navab, 2008) medical augmented reality takes it motivation from the need of visualizing medical data and the patient within the same physical space. The reason for chose this topic because it is because this application more advance and the technologies always bring new visualization and interaction using augmented reality in 3D in surgery performing requirements. So, discussing these topics actually need many evaluations to perceive the result to the area of surgery and medicine in medical performance.