StarGaze Description Page StarGaze Introduction Augmented Reality is an variation of Virtual Reality. Virtual Reality uses head-mounted visors to display what the user is viewing in the virtual world. The visor that the user is looking into is basically made up of two small display screens, one in front of each eye. As the user moves in the real world, the virtual world image is modified appropriately, thus creating the illusion of the virtual world. Augmented reality uses similar visors, but the user can actually see through the small display screens, as if they were looking through half-silvered glass.
Augmented reality enhances the real world with additional displays, images, and pictures.
An application of this would be to fix one's car. By donning one of these visors, the display could lead you through the steps of the repair. Virtual arrows would show you which part of the engine you would need to manipulate. As you move your head side to side, the arrows would remain pointing to the particular part of the car that needs repair next. The objective of this system is to create an Augmented Reality system for viewing the stars, planets, and other stellar objects.