ANNOTATED REALITY

n.

Extra information — such as images or sounds — supplied to a person from a wearable computer.

"The devices include everything from Schwartz's fishnet vest adorned with connected components, to laptops-in-fanny-packs, to thick glasses that reflect a video display in one lens. The glasses provide a dominant vision of the real world that is overlaid by information from an electronic world. Such information overlays are called annotated reality, a subcategory of wearable computing distantly related to virtual reality."

— Chris Oakes, "Waiting for Wearable Wearables," Wired News, October 19, 1999

affective computing

augmented reality

e-textile

innernet

memory glasses

mixed reality

real reality

reality distortion field

wearable

Hardware

Gadgets and Appliances