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Showing posts with label augmented reality. Show all posts
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Monday, October 8, 2012

Augmented Reality -- Not Just For Geeks



Greetings it’s me Craig,Turbo and my new assistant Smittens. 

So, today I’m writing about AR.  

No, it’s not pirate speak, not the state west of Memphis, and no my good teacher friends, not Accelerated Reader.  I’m talking about Augmented Reality.  Sound like Future Geek Speak? Until now it has been just that.

Originally AR technology was created for the military to provide marking ability of landmarks. 

If you have watched football in the last few years you’ve seen AR technology at work showing viewers the first-down line.

According to Wikipedia: Augmented reality (AR) is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data.  

Blah, blah, geek, nerd, geek, tech speak...