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Augmented reality systems are used in public safety situations, from super storms to suspects at large. As early as 2009, two articles from Emergency Management discussed AR technology for emergency management. The first was "Augmented Reality—Emerging Technology for Emergency Management", by Gerald Baron. [214]
Extended reality (XR) is an umbrella term to refer to augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and virtual reality (VR). The technology is intended to combine or mirror the physical world with a "digital twin world" able to interact with it, [1] [2] giving users an immersive experience by being in a virtual or augmented environment.
Tango (named Project Tango while in testing) was an augmented reality computing platform, developed and authored by the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP), a skunkworks division of Google. It used computer vision to enable mobile devices , such as smartphones and tablets , to detect their position relative to the world around them without ...
Zuckerberg positioned AR technology as a sort of magnum opus when he first pivoted the world’s biggest social media company toward building immersive “metaverse” systems in 2021. Delivering ...
Augmented reality (AR) is a type of virtual reality technology that blends what the user sees in their real surroundings with digital content generated by computer software. The additional software-generated images with the virtual scene typically enhance how the real surroundings look in some way.
WebAR, previously known as the Augmented Web, is a web technology that allows for augmented reality functionality within a web browser. It is a combination of HTML, Web Audio, WebGL, and WebRTC. [1] From 2020s more known as web-based Augmented Reality or WebAR, which is about the use of augmented reality elements in browsers.
An AR technology was developed in 2012 to market a commemorative coin in Aruba. [2] In 2013, CrowdOptic technology was used to create AR experiences for an annual festival in Toronto, Canada. [3] An AR app Makeup Genius released to try out beauty makeup and styles with the help of handheld devices was released in 2014. [4]
They coined the name augmented reality for this technology. [2] [10] Contemporary several prototypes were proposed to demonstrate AR's application to manufacturing: [11] a laser-printer maintenance application was proposed in 1993 by Steven K. Feiner and coauthors by introducing the concept of knowledge-based AR for maintenance assistance (KARMA).