Augmented Reality article by Paul Forge, Life Upper ...



Augmented Reality article by Paul Forge, Life Upper Intermediate Unit 3, P.36Read this article and then answer the true – false – not given questions on the reverse side. Indicate where you find the true/false answers in the text below.Circle any vocabulary words you find in the text here or in the T/F/NG questionsThe regular world presented to us by our five senses -- you could call it reality 1.0 -- is not always the most user-friendly of places. We get lost in unfamiliar cities; we meet people whose language we don't understand. So why not try the improved version augmented reality (AR) or reality 2.0. AR technology superimposes computer-generated images on the real world via a mobile phone camera or special video glasses.Early forms of AR are already here. With the right downloads smart phones can deliver information about nearby ATMs and restaurants and other points of interest. But that's just the beginning. A few years from now the quantity of information available will have increased enormously. You will not only see that there's a Chinese restaurant on the next block, you will be able to see the menu and prices, read reviews of it, and even find out how busy it is at the time.This is where the next revolution in computing will take place: not in ever more sophisticated games that exist in a virtual-reality world, but rather in the interface between the real world and the information brought to us via the Internet. Imagine bubbles floating before your eyes, filled with cool information about anything and everything that you see in front of you. Information overload? Perhaps not.Let's jump ahead to 10 years from now. A person trying to fix their car won't be looking at a repair manual online or a book with illustrations; they will be wearing a device that projects animated 3-D computer graphics onto the equipment under repair, labeling parts and giving step-by-step guidance. Such technology is already being used by trainee mechanics in the US Marines. The window onto the 3D world can be a smartphone or special video glasses that look like wraparound sunglasses. But in 10 years’ time these will have been replaced by contact lenses which display text and images at a readable distance in front of the eye. So a deaf person wearing these inconspicuous lenses will be able to see a real-time transcript of what people are saying as they speak. The question is while we are all absorbed in our new augmented reality worlds, how will we be interacting with each other?Answer these questions TRUE / FALSE or NOT GIVENIndicate in the text where you find the answer by underlining that place and writing a question number beside it.Circle any Unit 3 (list #2) vocabulary words you find in the questions or in the text._____ 1. Augmented reality superimposes the real world on computer generated images._____ 2. Augmented reality aims to provide the real world with a user-friendly interface._____ 3. To deploy augmented reality on your smartphone you need to download an app for it._____ 4. According to the text if you want to see menus, prices, and reviews of nearby restaurants you need to wait for future breakthroughs._____ 5. You can't use augmented reality on your laptop or PC._____ 6. The next revolution in computing will be in providing ever more sophisticated interfaces for games that exist in virtual reality._____ 7. The implication at the end of paragraph three is that augmented reality superimposed on real world interfaces will result in information overload. _____ 8. Augmented reality can help mechanics by allowing them to repair machinery without using their hands to turn the pages of manuals._____ 9. An important breakthrough in augmented reality will be when its interface device becomes less like wraparound sunglasses to something inconspicuous._____ 10. Augmented reality will empower deaf people to hear better._____ 11. The author Tim Folger promotes the idea that we might be interacting with each other in the future through augmented reality interfaces ................
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