Welcome

Welcome to my Augmented Reality Libraries blog.

This blog forms part of my assessment for the Diploma of Library and Information Systems course I am undertaking.  In particular, we are looking at an emerging technology and how it can be used to meet the needs of library customers.

The technology I shall be looking at it augmented reality.

What exactly is augmented reality?  Wikipedia describes it as "a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data."

For examples that may help provide better understanding, augmented reality (AR) can be seen utilised in such movies as Iron Man, Minority Report and Terminator.

Or you could watch the following video for an explination, with examples.




As this is a blog that forms part of a course assessment, it will be heavily dotted with citations and annotated bibliographies.

Dovgal, Denis. 2013. Augmented reality. What is augmented reality?. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09vxKN1zLNI [Accessed: 23 Jul 2013].

En.wikipedia.org. 2013. Augmented reality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality [Accessed: 23 Jul 2013].