One More Time

Augmented reality could be the feature needed to reawaken the knowledge that learning can be fun. Imagine learning about biology, for example, and having a virtual skeleton disassemble itself in the middle of the classroom, while you all watch and take notes, before it puts itself back together and wanders off? Or finding out the difference between the various finches – a la Charles Darwin in t...

Mixed reality and augmented reality are the same thing to some people, and some sections of the media have also made this semantic decision. However, to companies like Microsoft and various others, there is a very precise definition of mixed reality and it has some important features that separate it from augmented reality. To properly understand what mixed reality is, we need to break down the...