The internet has tended towards invisibility. Like electricity before it, or the now ubiquitous technologies of clocks or eye-glasses, the interface with a technology becomes so natural as to fall away. Augmented reality (AR), however, touches a compelling point of inflection in the rise of immersive computing.
What began as a term in a 1990 research paper to describe a new way of delivering information to Boeing engineers is, today, a growing interface with the potential to change how humans interact with the internet and with their surroundings, merging the two. Augmented reality, a promise that gained real traction around...