Issues in Augmented Reality
Augmented reality occurs when technology adds additional information within a real world environment. Yard line markers that are superimposed on a football field to aid television viewers watching the game at home is an example of augmented reality. There are many applications for augmented reality in the medical, defense and entertainment domains.
Performance Issues
Augmented reality must process, respond to, and evolve with the real world environment as it changes. Real time processing of images can be a challenge and often can slow down augmented reality systems. This lag in time may cause old or stale information to be displayed in the real world environment.
Interaction Issues
Users within a mixed environment because of augmented reality have difficulties interacting with the environment as normal. Users may try to interact with the virtual information (such as the yard line markers during viewing of a football game) which do not actually exist in the real world.
Alignment Issues
People working in an augmented reality are more sensitive to alignment errors. Proper calibration and alignment with the reference frame of the world is crucial. It is easy for cameras and data to be calibrated incorrectly, often causing information to be shifted or displayed incorrectly within the real world environment.
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