Patent ID: 8264505
Filing Date: 2012-09-11
Classification: A63F,G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A system that facilitates augmenting reality, comprising: a processor; a memory; an information gathering component stored in the memory and executed by the processor having a reality monitor component that gathers real-world data for at least one real-world object and a query component stored in the memory and executed by the processor that establishes a query based at least in part on context-related information for the real-world data, the query providing access to virtual-world data supplied by one or more remote sources; and an interface component stored in the memory and executed by the processor and configured to receive at least a portion of the real-world data and the virtual-world data from the information gathering component, the interface component having a consolidation component that aggregates the received real-world and virtual-world data, the interface component establishes, in real-time, an augmented-reality experience in which at least a portion of the received real-world data is overlaid with at least a portion of the received virtual-world data.