In augmented reality, all the world's a screen.
For those who have been believers in augmented reality, these are exciting times.
TeleStory uses the cameras built into devices to allow children to record videos of themselves in augmented reality environments.
Dr. Montgomery, whose background is in computer engineering, said his interest in augmented reality began at the NASA Ames Research Center, where he worked on space-related research.
But it's the idea of catching Pokémon in augmented reality, with my phone, that will keep me coming back until the novelty eventually wears off.
When Go was announced last September, it was already being heralded as a landmark experiment in augmented and virtual-reality gaming.
This one for shoe retailer Clarks squeezes in augmented reality, Kimberly Wyatt formerly of the Pussycat Dolls, and a matching-shoes memory game.
Apple plans to invest in augmented reality following success of Pokémon Go Pokémon Go players urged not to venture into Fukushima disaster zone.
Dr. Fuchs said he had first been drawn to work in augmented reality in 1970, when he was in graduate school and saw the groundbreaking see-through displays developed by Ivan Sutherland, widely regarded as the father of modern computer graphics.
In this case, the app is simplistic and not quite as powerful as unaugmented alternatives, but it's a hint of bigger things in augmented reality's future.
"In augmented reality you are overlaying digital information on top of the real world," says Jyri Huopaniemi, director of the Nokia Research Centre in Tampere, Finland.
