If you load up an AR app on your phone, it will often overlap the augmentation over the camera image. So I think reprojecting the outside world using cameras and augmenting that in VR is also a form of AR. Maybe we need a new name for this specifically, though? I don't know. But maybe AVR or VAR?
We don’t need another name because it’s a very common feature in VR headsets. My headset has monochromatic cameras for passthrough, but it’s still a VR headset.
I’m not sure about your definition of AR, but if the camera is showing the real world plus digital content then it’s augmented reality.
Here is some definition:
In virtual reality (VR), the users’ perception of reality is completely based on virtual information. In augmented reality (AR) the user is provided with additional computer- generated information within the data collected from real life that enhances their perception of reality.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
pretty good VR - all of the user’s field of vision is digitally (re-)created.
r00ty@kbin.life 9 months ago
If you load up an AR app on your phone, it will often overlap the augmentation over the camera image. So I think reprojecting the outside world using cameras and augmenting that in VR is also a form of AR. Maybe we need a new name for this specifically, though? I don't know. But maybe AVR or VAR?
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
We don’t need another name because it’s a very common feature in VR headsets. My headset has monochromatic cameras for passthrough, but it’s still a VR headset.
calavera@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I’m not sure about your definition of AR, but if the camera is showing the real world plus digital content then it’s augmented reality.
Here is some definition:
Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 9 months ago
Apple already invented the phrase/name: Spatial Computing
r00ty@kbin.life 9 months ago
I was thinking more of a general term. I can imagine apple putting all kinds of trademarks over any term they're going to use.