Using a handheld mobile device, such as a smartphone or tablet, augmented reality uses the device's camera to capture the video of the real world and combine it with virtual objects.
As illustrated in the following image, running an AR app on a mobile device, you simply point its camera to a target in the real world and the app will recognize the target and render a 3D computer graphic registered to the target's position and orientation. This is handheld mobile video see-through augmented reality:
We use the words handheld and mobile because we're using a handheld mobile device. We use video see-through because we're using ...
