Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality itself is an innovation to enhance human perception by creating 3 Dimension virtual object which can blend together within space in the real world. Although it claims to the part of the reality, Augmented Reality definition is debatable since it is basically an illusion recorded as technological data.

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Actually Augmented Reality firstly appeared in 1990s. Today the term of Augmented Reality or AR is becoming popular not only in limited group of society whose concern in media and technology but also in industries, military and entertainment.

Augmented Reality will bring a lot of contributions to human productivity and the way people interact. For People with their mobile phone can simply access every source of information easily and effectively through the interactive function provided by their device to locate or reveal real visual of particular data like the address or description of people they meet. How easy our life can be if everything has their own virtual model that we can avoid the risk of misinterpretation or miscalculation. Augmented Reality can be very useful in education example to learn history better by recalling historical events in present day. 

As well as its contribution, the implementation of Augmented Reality may be controversial. Technical implementation of AR in our life will be bias especially the clash between privacy and the freedom of information accessibility. sooner or later it will be our future challenge by creating possible treat, example misused of copyright or intellectual property right. Augmented Reality also has its basic problem in how accurate will it be to represent or correctly match with the reality.  

However, history has recorded that human life is dynamic. The shifting from old mass media to new media and now in our digitally world sometimes makes us confused. The only way that we should do is nothing. Let it flow and be the part of it.