SYSTEMS: Remember when augmented reality was all the rage - but then many companies realised (such as TripAdvisor) that consumers just weren't ready it, especially as it meant having to walk around waving their phones or tablets in the air. Wearable tech might change all this. Read the full story on CNET.
Reality isn't what is used to be. With increasingly powerful technologies, the human universe is being reimagined way beyond Google Glass' photo-tapping and info cards floating in space above your eye.
The future is fashionable eye-wear, contact lenses or even bionic eyes with immersive 3D displays, conjuring up a digital layer to "augment" reality, enabling entire new classes of applications and user experiences.
Like most technologies that eventually reach a mass market, augmented reality, or AR, has been gestating in university labs, as well as small companies focused on gaming and vertical applications, for nearly half a century.
Current products on the market barely scratch the surface of what's to come.
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