Augmented reality
Realidad aumentada
- Date
- 1990-2016 · confidence medium
- Place
- Boeing, Seattle, Washington, United States; Pokémon Go (Niantic, San Francisco, 2016)
- Credited to
- Tom Caudell and David Mizell (Boeing, coined the term, 1990); Louis Rosenberg (Virtual Fixtures, 1992); ARToolKit (Hirokazu Kato, 1999); Niantic (Pokémon Go)
- People
- 👤 Louis Rosenberg1969–
- Field
- Communication
What it is
The overlay of digital information onto the view of the real world through glasses or a phone camera. Pokémon Go brought it to hundreds of millions of people.
What it led to
- Smart glasses and mixed-reality headsets
- Snapchat and Instagram camera filters
- Factory and surgical assistance with overlaid instructions
Built on
Made possible
- Google Glass
- Apple Vision Pro
- social media filters