Augmented Reality on the Plant Floor

摘要

Google, with its sci-fi inspired, slick Glass device, has finally brought augmented reality into the world. Well, almost. Wielding a long-promised suite of augmented or mediated reality technologies, Glass—now tantalizingly close to public release—merges the physical world with the digital to, as enthusiasts say, free us from the downward gaze to our cell phones and re-engage with the world (without sacrificing our gadgetry). It is— or at least it promises to be—the first seamless merger of technology and reality.