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The Dawn of AR

AR的黎明

Smart phones helped usher in another reality-altering technology this year, as many new augmented-reality games and mapping applications were released.

今年，像随着大量新的虚拟实境游戏和绘图应用的得以发布，智能手机在另外一个实时变更科技方面为招待员大施援手。。

Companies including Layar, Wikitude, and Qualcomm released AR apps for smart phones. Users point a phone's camera at something and see an image overlaid with floating information, such as directions, the names of buildings, historical photos, or restaurant reviews. One app even shows people's latest Twitter and Facebook updates floating around their heads (Augmented Identity). Businesses are starting to get on board with AR apps for advertising (Augmented Reality Lacks Bite for Marketers).

包括Layar, Wikitude和Qualcomm为智能电话发布了AR应用件。使用者将手机的照相机对准某件物品，就能看到一个加载其上的浮动的信息，诸如指引方向，建筑名称，历史照片或者是对餐馆的点评。有一个应用甚至可以在人们的头部浮动显示他们的最后一次推特（Twitter）和面谱（Facebook）的更新（虚拟身份）。商人们开始时到AR应用平台上刊登广告（虚拟实境缺乏市场应价者）。

Researchers have found other applications for AR (Augmented-Reality Floor Tiling and Treating Cockroach Phobia With Augmented Reality). Even big companies like GM have been experimenting with AR—for instance, to help improve car safety (GM Develops Augmented Reality Windshield). One collaborative AR experiment used sophisticated tracking to ensure that two people simultaneously saw the same virtual elements in physical space (Collaborative Augmented Reality Makes Beautiful Music).

研究人员们还找到了AR的其他应用（虚拟实境瓷砖地板和用虚拟实境对付蟑螂恐惧症）。甚至像通用（GM）这样的大公司也在尝试AR——比如，协助改进汽车的安全性（通用开发虚拟实境雨刷）。一项协作性AR尝试使用尖端的追踪来保证2个人能在物理空间里同时看见相同的虚拟元素（协作虚拟实境谱出出美妙乐章）。

Having to view the world through the screen of a smart phone is tiresome. So some companies are working to bring affordable, lightweight AR glasses to consumers. These could provide a more immersive AR experience (Augmented Reality Goggles) and help AR become more common, and more useful.

只能从智能手机的屏幕里去探寻一个世界是无聊的。于是有些公司致力于为消费者制造支付得起的轻质AR眼镜。这也许能提供一种更令人沉醉的AR体验（虚拟实境的护目镜），并有助于AR变得更为普遍有用。

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/26990/?p1=A1

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