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.
showing the real world plus digital content then it’s augmented reality
But it isn’t. AR means direct optical contact with the real world augmented with a digital layer. What Apple’s VR does is recreate the real pov digitally using cameras, so it’s VR. Google Glass was an example of AR.
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:
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
But it isn’t. AR means direct optical contact with the real world augmented with a digital layer. What Apple’s VR does is recreate the real pov digitally using cameras, so it’s VR. Google Glass was an example of AR.
NightAuthor@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The terms are up for definition, I’ve read a ton and there is no specific consensus about optically seeing reality
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.