To be honest, I’m not totally decided on what constitutes ‘reality’, in the context of AR. One could argue that depending on its application, any sensor on a mobile phone could, by definition, be a ‘reality’ sensor. If this data were to be augmented, then this could result in an augmented reality application. This example however, is quite liberal and would extend AR applications to almost anything; eg: Google maps with layers could be defined as an AR application, or Shazam could also be defined as a AR application; music is the reality, and you are getting information about it….?

At the moment I am simply watching the debate before I make up my mind. However, as I said earlier, I believe that, theory aside, the application is all important, and I believe that this is what will define whether something is really AR, or not.

Nitin

Yes, that was my suggestion. Sounds like you sort of agree with me. What are your thoughts on it? Am curious how you look at things as well.

This post was mentioned on Twitter by AugmentedPlanet: Augmented Reality Gaming: Nokia Ovi Maps Racing – http://tinyurl.com/ya9ff2f #AR #AUGMENTEDREALITY…

Thanks for your comment. I think that I agree with you. I believe that if I’ve understood your comment correctly, then this kinda suggests that camera view = reality to augment, location != reality to augment – in this context that is.

However, as I said in the article, the game was not marketed as an AR game, but I thought the debate might be interesting.

Nitin

I first thought… well wouldn’t that make a stadium in Madden NFL be AR? Then I realized it really doesn’t take your location into consideration so that didn’t hold up.

I have a harder time calling it AR than not so that’s my verdict.

Now, if someone could replay part of their race in a direct view (say you hold up your device to the street corner up ahead), and your car comes screeching around the corner in your device view… that would be more along the lines of AR for me.

Again, tough call but I lean more towards non AR… my 2 cents from the gut.