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Through the computerized looking glass of augmented reality (AR), like Alice in Wonderland you may see the real world virtually annotated with informative labels, or what's visible overlayed with what's usually hidden, or animated playmates fading in and out of view. Such real-time location-based interaction of reality and computer-generated images could soon be widely used in education, tourism, defense, medicine, manufacturing, and entertainment.
AR is still largely confined to academic and corporate research labs. Nonetheless, it has become far more practical in the three years since Computer Graphics World last visited this realm of technology in depth (see ...