It’s time to go now! A last look at my hair and I am ready for my first
date with her. I am excited but a bit anxious too…I think that’s normal since I
don’t know anything about her and the first impression will be crucial!
She starts to introduce herself: “I am Augmented Reality, the enrichment
of human sensorial perception through the addition of information, typically
manipulated and conveyed electronically…The information I give you can not be perceived through the use of the 5 senses alone.
Sometimes, I can even reduce the amount of information you perceive,.”
“Oh
yes!” I think. “I get it... It’s like Virtual Reality, isn’t it?” Damn! I’ve just
made the first mistake… She replies “Actually no! In virtual reality, the
manipulated information becomes dominant, to the extent that changes
the environment so much that you cannot distinguish between reality and
the new virtual environment! By contrast, augmented
reality just adds few features, but the overall environment remains the same”
I think, “Wow, that seems cool but….How can I get into an augmented world?!” She promptly
satisfies my curiosity: “Basically, there are 2 types of augmented reality: the
one provided by Mobile phones - which analyzes the
surrounding environment and adds different layers, such as point of interest,
3D elements – and the one provided by Computers - based on the use of markers,
AR tags, and stylized drawings to which multimedia contents (video, audio, 3D
objects) are added to create the augmented reality environment.”
Whaaaaaaaaaat?!?! I
definitely need to bring this conversation back to basics! I need some
examples… “Well, there are tons of the possible applications of augmented
reality: think of football matches and the line that appears on the television
to indicate whether a player is offsides … That’s augmented reality! Think of
when you are a tourist in a city… All the applications on your mobile phone
that provide you real time information regarding a location and its feature,
those are augmented reality as well!”
Cool! I am very
curious now and I would like to ask a lot of questions but…It’s late and she
has to go home L ! Please, let’s
keep in touch! It would be amazing to see you again and to learn more about
you!
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