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Augmented reality 10
Literature
• The books Halting State by Charles Stross and Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge include augmented reality
primarily in the form of virtual overlays over the real world. Halting State mentions Copspace, which is used by
cops, and the use by gamers to overlay their characters onto themselves during a gaming convention. Rainbows
End mentions outdoor overlays based on popular fictional universes from H. P. Lovecraft and Terry Pratchett
among others.
• The term "Geohacking" has been coined by William Gibson in his book Spook Country, where artists use a
combination of GPS and 3D graphics technology to embed rendered meshes in real world landscapes.
• In The Risen Empire, by Scott Westerfeld, most - if not all - people have their own "synesthesia". An AR menu
unique to the user that is projected in front of them, but they can only see their own synesthesia menus. It is
controlled by hand gestures, blink patterns, where the user is looking, clicks of the tongue, etc.
• In the Greg Egan novel Distress, the 'Witness' software used to record sights and sounds experienced by the user
can be set-up to scan what the user is seeing and highlight people the user is looking out for.
• In the Revelation Space series of novels, Alastair Reynolds characters frequently employ "Entoptics" which are
essentially a highly developed form of augmented reality, going so far as to entirely substitute natural perception.
Games
• The table top role-playing game, Shadowrun, introduced AR into its game world. Most of the characters in the
game use viewing devices to interact with the AR world most of the time.
• Cybergeneration, a table top role-playing game by R. Talsorian, includes "virtuality", an augmented reality
created through v-trodes, cheap, widely available devices people wear at their temples.
• In the video game Heavy Rain, Norman Jayden, an FBI profiler, possesses a set of experimental augmented
reality glasses called an "Added Reality Interface", or ARI. It allows him to rapidly investigate crime scenes and
analyze evidence.
• In Dead Space the RIG worn by Isaac Clarke is thoroughly equipped with augmented reality technology,
including a navigation system that projects a line along the best route to his destination, and a system that displays
images, video and text in front of him.
See also
• Alternate reality game
• ARQuake
• Augmented browsing
• Augmented virtuality
• Augmented Reality-based testing
• Bionic contact lens
• Brain in a vat
• Camera resectioning
• Computer-mediated reality
• Cyborg
• Head-mounted display
• Mixed reality
• Mediated reality
• Simulated reality
• Viractualism
• Virtual retinal display
• Virtuality Continuum