Tag: ARToolKit

  • Infographic – The History and Future of Augmented Reality

    Infographic – The History and Future of Augmented Reality

    Unlike Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality does not immerse its user into a new environment; it enhances one’s reality by overlaying digital information onto things being viewed on a digital device. Though AR is rising in popularity in 2016, variations of it have been around since 1957 with Mortin Helig’s Sensorama machine as one such example.…

  • Infographic: History of Augmented Reality

    Infographic: History of Augmented Reality

    Though there has not been much discussion of Augmented Reality until recently, AR has actually been around since 1968; which is when the first head-mounted display was developed. Since then, advances in technology have allowed AR to be implemented in a variety of industries; such as the Air Force in 1992, which allowed military personnel…