In 2002 , to experienceaugmented realitywas to lash 26 Cypriot pound of equipment to your body and hobble waywardly within the confines of predefined area . In 2010 , you could augment the entire world with a free app for your smartphone .
This shot of the Columbia University’sMobile Augmented Reality System(MARS ) occur from aPopSci storywritten 10 Feb ago . ( The magazine’ssearchable archivesjust went online . ) This right around the prison term that augment reality had made the jumping from esoteric sci - fi construct to actual affair , albeit in the form of awkward enquiry projects and simplistic military applications :
If you lather on this getup , as [ the writer ] had , you commence to understand the unplumbed possibilities of an AR system , which can lay over computing machine - give text , graphics , 3D animation , sound , or any other or any other digitized data on the real world .
As much as innovative smartphone apps likeLayaractually do more — they’re connected to the internet constantly , for one — they still do n’t meet one of the magnetic core criteria of the augmented reality concept : they ’re not glasses . In other words , you ’ve got to hold your smartphone out in front of you , as if you ’re taking a video at all times , which is as obnoxious as it is exhausting to your upper arms . So it ’s not quite sci - fi .
But it ’s a far muckle closer than we ’ve ever come in before . [ PopSci ]
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