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"Virtual reality overlaid on the real world in this manner is called mixed reality, or MR." I thought it was called AR, as in augmented reality?
by calgoo 11y ago
"Virtual reality overlaid on the real world in this manner is called mixed reality, or MR."
I thought it was called AR, as in augmented reality?
- calgoo 11y agoJust found the answer on the site: VR places the user in another location entirely. Whether that location is computer-generated or captured by video, it entirely occludes the user’s natural surroundings. In augmented reality—like Google Glass or the Yelp app’s Monocle feature on mobile devices—the visible natural world is overlaid with a layer of digital content. In technologies like Magic Leap’s, virtual objects are integrated into—and responsive to—the natural world. A virtual ball under your desk, for example, would be blocked from view unless you bent down to look at it. In theory, MR could become VR in a dark room.
- talmand 11y agoI've never heard augmented reality described as essentially a fancy HUD. Every other example of it I've seen on the web describes it as what these people are trying to call mixed reality. They are just trying to create a new term that they own.
- FLGMwt 11y agoThere's a graphic midway through the article that makes a distinction. I don't necessarily agree, but the author (and apparently ML) see AR with additional overlays, like HUDs, and MR as virtual models and things, such as a whale flying through your living room.
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoLuckily they don't get to make up what terms we use. They previously tried to coin "cinematic reality" as well.
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoIt is, the article has it wrong, or rather imprecise. Mixed reality encompasses a spectrum, including augmented reality and augmented virtuality (leap motion). Milgram's taxonomy is considered cannon in this field so I am not sure how they messed that up. [1] http://etclab.mie.utoronto.ca/people/paul_dir/IEICE94/ieice.html http://etclab.mie.utoronto.ca/people/paul_dir/IEICE94/ieice....
- Raphmedia 11y ago"Mixed Reality In technologies like Magic Leap’s, virtual objects are integrated into—and responsive to—the natural world. A virtual ball under your desk, for example, would be blocked from view unless you bent down to look at it. In theory, MR could become VR in a dark room."