New Technology Assignment
According to an article published on Entrepreneur.com, Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that is projected to be a new social media trend. The short definition of augmented reality is, “an enhanced version of reality with computer generated images over a user’s view of the real-world”. This is different than virtual reality because augmented reality doesn’t virtually inhibit your entire environment but rather uses your existing environment and simply overlays virtual images on top of it. There is currently a company working in Fort Lauderdale, Florida called Magic Leap that works with MR or mixed reality technology. They take aspects of virtual and augmented realities into their technologies. Their most popular video is of whale breaching in a school gym . This video gives a good example of what augmented reality looks like. Magic Leap applies their technology to things such as gaming and communication. Augmented reality technology can be used for something as simple as a Snapc...
