Augmented Reality : Reflections on its Contribution to Knowledge Formation
Abstract
In the past, "Augmented Reality" onlym eant thato ur real-world environment is extended by digital instruments which are equipped with sensor interfaces (sound, video, touching) to enhance men-machine communication.An even elder paradigm was "virtual reality" replacing the real world with acomputationallys imulated one.But,n owadays,e xponential growth of computer capacities, Big Data and fast algorithms lead to an ew paradigm with is called the "Internet of Things" (IoT) with dramatic changeo fo ur living world.Billions of objects ("things")are equipped with trillions of sensors to communicatewith one-another.T his kind of machine-to-machine communication enables self-or-ganizingI T-networks growingt ogether with global technicala nd societal infrastructures:S mart cities, smart grids, smart mobility, and the industrial internet (Industry 4.0) are examples of cyberphysical systems.Reality is no longer only "augmented" by IT-technology.It is changed into an ew kind of self-organizing superorganism controlled by fast Big Data algorithms as nervous system.
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