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How Augmented Reality impacts technical documentation
Text by Juergen Lumera
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For those of you who are not yet familiar with the emerging technology called Augmented Reality (AR), here is a quick introduction: AR allows superimposing 3D information onto a real-time video stream. The overlaid 3D information is positioned and scaled in perspective, giving the user the impression that the information is part of the scene. A common example is a streamed soccer game, where the offside line is occasionally superimposed to show whether the player was offside or not. Likewise, in American football, the remaining yards to the goal line are superimposed onto the field.
This article will show how Augmented Reality will impact technical documentation, what challenges lie ahead and what opportunities it will bring to technical writers.
Image 1: A wire harness is superimposed onto a dashboard.
Source: www.bosch.de
Image 1: A wire harness is superimposed onto a dashboard.Source: www.bosch.de
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