Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality: Musings and Future Directions
Woodrow Barfield · 2015
In this chapter, I briey introduce the topic of wearable computers and augmented reality, with the goal to provide the reader a roadmap to the book, a brief historical perspective, and a glimpse into the future of a sensor-lled, wearable computer and augmented reality (AR) world. While each technology alone (AR and wearables) is providing people with amazing applications and technologies to assist them in their daily life, the combination of the technologies is often additive and, in some cases, multiplicative, as, for example, when virtual images, spatialized sound, and haptic feedback are combined with wearable computers to augment the world with information whenever or wherever it is needed.