Introduction
Educational content is increasingly being delivered through learning environments that are digital or technologically enhanced. One such technology-enhanced application is the evolving medium of augmented reality (AR), a technology that integrates interactive computer-generated data with the user’s environment within a display interface. AR has the ability to enhance the real environment and perceptually enrich the user’s experience, hence “augmented.” This makes AR an enticing technology for educators to use as a tool since the real environment gets “annotated and informative” through the overlay of virtual objects in AR. Students construct new meaningful situational experiences with these augmented virtual objects that are brought to life in the backdrop of the real environment.
History of AR
The history of augmented reality spans over half a century. The term augmented reality was thought to be coined by former Boeing researcher Thomas Caudell who used this technology...
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Sen, A., Liew, S.H. (2020). Augmented Reality and Its Use in Education. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_211
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