mixed reality

English

Noun

mixed reality (countable and uncountable, plural mixed realities)

1. The merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations where physical and digital objects coexist and interact.
   • 2011, Xiangyu Wang, editor, Mixed Reality and Human-Robot Interaction, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 1:

     Mixed reality, as an approach in human-computer interaction, is often implicitly tied to particular implementation techniques (e.g., see-through device) and modalities (e.g., visual, graphical displays).

   • 2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     And I suppose one should not forget “mixed reality” (MR), the term applied to Microsoft’s goggles (but which doesn’t seem that different from the others), or “spatial computing” (the term preferred by Apple during its presentation).

Synonyms

• hybrid reality, MR

Hypernyms

• reality

Translations

mixed reality

• Finnish: tehostettu todellisuus
• Georgian: შერეული რეალობა (šereuli realoba)
• German: gemischte Realität f, Mixed Reality f, vermischte Realität f
• Swedish: blandad verklighet, mixed reality

Further reading

• mixed reality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia