In Funes The Memorious, Jorge Luis Borges writes of a boy who remembers every detail of his every perception, his mind locked on to an endlessly replaying reel of memory, the past overlaying the present.
Overlaying more and more data will provide much richer visualisation, adds Mr Berkenstock.Nor will all the nanosats be looking downwards.
"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.
Google's vision of the future involves overlaying the real world seen through its specs with information from its search engine and other services.
Luxottica will help with the design and development of future iterations of Glass.Google's vision of the future involves overlaying the real world seen through its specs with information from its search engine and other services.
Virtual reality never really died, he says it just divided itself in two, with AR enhancing the real world by overlaying information from the virtual realm, and VR becoming what he calls "augmented virtuality", in which real information is overlaid onto virtual worlds, such as players' names in video games.
Plenty of action is likely in 2012 as the location start-ups both compete and co-operate with the big social networks (Facebook, Twitter and Google+), which will continue to integrate location information into their services.A similar situation pertains in the field of augmented reality (AR), the sci-fi trick of overlaying information from the internet onto a real-time view of the real world.
Overlaying the north-south divide is the drift from town to country to which London is the great exception.
That now looks set to change as a number of efforts aim to put the technology in far more hands, by linking it to mobile phones.In late 2012, Andy Rawson decided to build his own crude thermal imager, which he attached to his phone, overlaying a thermal image with that from his phone's own camera.
Rather than piecing together recorded snippets of speech from a large database, this involves overlaying the snippets on to an existing but similar synthetic-voice model, just as a costume might be draped over a generic mannequin.
And overlaying all this is sloppy disclosure and a habit of focusing on firms' "stand-alone" accounts.
