augmented reality

English

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Noun

augmented reality (countable and uncountable, plural augmented realities)

1. (computing) The merging of a view of the real-world environment upon a digital image in real time.

   Synonym: AR

   • 1997 August, Ronald T. Azuma, “A Survey of Augmented Reality”, in Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments‎^[1], volume 6, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 355–385:

     Augmented Reality enhances a user's perception of and interaction with the real world. The virtual objects display information that the user cannot directly detect with his own senses.

   • 2019 February 22, Julia Carrie Wong, “‘We won't be war profiteers’: Microsoft workers protest $480m army contract”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Microsoft workers are calling on their employer to cancel a $480m contract to provide the US army with augmented reality (AR) headsets, saying they “do not want to become war profiteers”.

Hypernyms

• mixed reality

Coordinate terms

• augmented virtuality
• reality / real reality (RR)
• virtual reality (VR)
• supranet

Translations

merging of a view of the real-world environment upon a digital image

• Arabic: الواقع المعزز
• Armenian: համալրված իրականություն (hamalrvac irakanutʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 增強現實 / 增强现实 (zēngqiáng xiànshí), 擴張實境 / 扩张实境 (kuòzhāng shíjìng)

• Danish: suppleret virkelighed, udvidet virkelighed, forstærket virkelighed
• Dutch: aangevulde realiteit
• Finnish: lisätty todellisuus
• French: réalité augmentée (fr) f
• Galician: realidade aumentada f
• Georgian: გაფართოებული რეალობა (gapartoebuli realoba), აუგმენტური რეალობა (augmenṭuri realoba)
• German: erweiterte Realität f
• Greek: επαυξημένη πραγματικότητα (el) f (epafximéni pragmatikótita)
• Hungarian: kiterjesztett valóság (hu)
• Indonesian: realitas tertambah
• Italian: realtà aumentata (it) f
• Japanese: 拡張現実 (kakuchō genjitsu)
• Korean: 증강 현실 (jeung-gang hyeonsil)
• Macedonian: проши́рена ре́алност f (prošírena réalnost)
• Malay: realiti terimbuh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utvidet virkelighet

• Polish: rzeczywistość rozszerzona f
• Portuguese: realidade aumentada f
• Russian: допо́лненная реа́льность (dopólnennaja reálʹnostʹ)
• Spanish: realidad aumentada f
• Swedish: förstärkt verklighet c
• Welsh: gor-realaeth, realiti estynedig

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