Augmented Reality

February 27, 2009

Imagine being able to download information from the Internet continuously and have it appear not on a computer screen or handheld device but on your eyeglasses or  contact lenses or perhaps to an artificial corneal implant, so that it would appear in your field of vision.

And visualize that information being automatically tagged to places, objects and people around you. And I don’t mean a fake virtual environment, either. You would be looking at the real world, except that it would be better — more detailed, more nuanced, revealing more than your eyes normally perceive. I’m talking about a technology called augmented reality, in which computer-generated text and graphics are integrated into real-world environments.

Augmented reality would have a truly mind-blowing range of potential applications.