Computer-mediated reality

Computer-mediated reality refers to the use of wearable or hand-held devices to manipulate one's perception of reality, blurring the boundary between cyberspace and the real world. It is a superset that encompasses augmented reality, mixed reality, and virtual reality. Examples of computer-mediated reality devices include EyeTap devices and digital eyeglasses.From: Telegeoinformatics [2019], The place of VR technologies in UK architectural practice [2018]

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Published in Thomas B. Sheridan, Telepresence: Actual and Virtual, 2023

Thomas B. Sheridan

Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory sensory modalities (Wikipedia). Synonymous with augmented reality are the terms mixed reality and computer-mediated reality.

The place of VR technologies in UK architectural practice

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Published in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2018

A. Benjamin Spaeth, Ramez Khali

Virtual Reality (VR) is defined, in the Oxford dictionary, as The computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside or gloves fitted with sensors. (Oxford Dictionaries)Virtual Reality was previously described by the term Artificial Reality, which was coined in 1970 by Krueger (1983). The use of ‘Artificial Reality’ has vanished, to better distinguish Virtual Reality from Augmented Reality, currently summarised under the umbrella of Computer-mediated Reality. Computer-mediated Reality ‘refers to the ability to add to, subtract information from, or otherwise manipulate one's perception of reality through the use of a wearable or hand-held device’, and is regarded as ‘a superset that encompasses Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and Virtual Reality’ (Mann & Barfield, 2003) as illustrated in Figure 2.

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