During the first week of class, I've learnt about a new technology known as Augmented Reality (AR).

Before I get to explaining about what I know about Augmented Reality, this class is about innovation and collaboration.

In my own understanding, innovation refers to recreating, improvising, renewing an idea or product or strategy to produce better results for societies' needs. Collaboration means to work together with others to achieve something.

After learning about AR, I searched up on the word "Augmented" to get a better understanding of the word. Augment means to make something greater in size or to enhance it. According to howstuffworks.com, augmented reality adds in sounds, graphics, smell to the real world in real time. AR display graphics from the viewer's perspective unlike many systems where it displays graphics from one point of view.

We were encouraged to have our own explanation of Augmented Reality. Here's my explanation (it may not be accurate)

"Augmented Reality is a concept where extra information is displayed overlaying the real world in real time."

Here's a video which explains it in a very simple way:





And Ikea has created an app to let you furnish your home virtually using AR :