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Human Performance Enhancement: Augmented Reality

Overview Accenture conducts leading-edge research to help clients envision and leverage new business opportunities. The latest research explores a technology known as Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality is the seamless overlay of digitized images onto a real environment, producing a composite picture. Digital effects and filmed shots of real actors and scenery, now familiar to movie goers, are an example of augmented reality. As digital imagery and display technology become more powerful and less expensive, the line between the "real" and the digitally-recreated will blur, allowing reality to be creatively enhanced and manipulated in everyday applications.

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Publisher	Accenture
Live Date	13th May 2004 01:03 BST
Format	Webcast
Topics	Virtual Reality

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