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		kazagistar on Dec 9, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Magic Leap’s technology may be years away from com... Does AR explicitly exclude camera+screen? I always thought that stuff like pokemon go and any similar "paste some 3d over a camera feed in real time" stuff counted as augmented reality.

jobigoud on Dec 9, 2016 [–]

We distinguish "video see-through" and "optical see-through" Augmented Reality.

The first one is mainly solved, the second one is way harder due to head tracking latency, computer vision latency, and user-dependent eye projection.

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