augmented reality
Vision technologies that superimpose a computer-generated object on an image of a real-world scene.
augmented reality Quick reference
A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
... reality A computer-generated image superimposed on the user’s view of the real...
augmented reality Quick reference
A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)
... reality Vision technologies that superimpose computer-generated information on real-world visuals: for example, Google Glass. ...
Augmented reality Reference library
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... reality A virtual-reality concept in which interactive computer-generated elements are combined with live digital camera images. It is widely used in the development of apps , and in marketing initiatives by companies keen to emphasize their position at the cutting edge...
augmented reality Quick reference
A Dictionary of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (5 ed.)
... reality A technique in which computer-generated imagery is overlaid on a live video signal. The most common applications are for smartphones that use positional data from GPS and Internet connections that display useful information about the real-world location of the user. See also HMD ; virtual reality systems . ...
Augmented Reality Reference library
Horea Avram
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2 ed.)
... Reality . The term “augmented reality” (AR) covers a wide array of technologies and visualization systems that allow the perceptual overlay of virtual information (including images, text, three-dimensional graphics, video, and sounds) on top of our physical reality, in real time, site specifically, and in an interactive manner. The augmented scene is perceived through the use of different displays, the most common being the AR glasses (head-mounted display [HMD]), video projections or monitors, and handheld mobile devices (such as smartphones or...
augmented reality
Reforming Islam and Islamic Law Reference library
Muhammad Sa‘id Al-‘Ashmawi
Islam in Transition: Muslim Perspectives (2 ed.)
...blend it with Islamic identity are also attacked and intimidated into silence. The Islamic world has been torn between the liberals and the militants. Unfortunately, few Muslims have put forward strategies to heal the divisions. Meanwhile the world continues evolving apace, augmenting its capacities by the minute, leaving the vast morass of Muslims to detach themselves from time and space by their behavior, moving nowhere but backward. Muslims opt not for sharing, but for resisting civilization, opposing its forces and consuming its products, then reacting...
Empire Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...such improving schemes as attempting to establish tea or hemp in India or cotton in the West Indies—schemes which accorded well with the view of commerce put forward a century earlier by the archmercantilist Jean - Baptiste Colbert , who wrote that ‘Commerce is the means to augment the power and grandeur of his Majesty and to lower that of his enemies and rivals’. Jenkinson's determination to maintain at least the basic machinery of mercantilism, despite the irritation it had caused to the American colonists, was most evident in his support for the last...
Architecture Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...conditions, since it would always be producing new, contemporaneous forms. Moreover, its historical erudition could articulate new meanings for public architecture, while augmenting the profession's intellectual status. Eclecticism did, however, have one weakness. It was usually understood to be a theory of surface style, therefore failing to engage the full, three-dimensional reality of architecture. Few theorists of the period essayed a conceptualization of architecture in depth, perhaps because of the obsession with style of the dominant lay criticism...
A Land Divided: Judah and Israel from the Death of Solomon to the Fall of Samaria Reference library
Edward F. Campbell Jr.
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...Jeroboam's religious sin, and, though challenged by prophetic voices, had finally led to exile. The epitaph of the northern kingdom was augmented by the remarkable portrayal in 2 Kings 17.24–33 , which depicts the Assyrian policy of population exchange and provides a valuable vignette of religious phenomenology. The new populations did not know the governing religious reality of the territory and needed instruction from the indigenous priesthood. A knowledgeable priest, who had been taken into captivity, was sent back to live at...
1 Esdras Reference library
Sara Japhet and Sara Japhet
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...generations of the restoration Judah was ruled by pairs, a secular and a clerical ruler working together (Zerubbabel and Joshua for the first period, Nehemiah and Ezra for the second). This is changed in 1 Esdras in three ways: For the first period of the restoration 1 Esdras augments the role of Zerubbabel without doing the same for the priest Joshua; Joshua is no longer Zerubbabel's equal but acts very much in his shadow. The omission of the story of Nehemiah leaves Ezra as the sole protagonist of his time, following immediately after Zerubbabel. Finally,...
Between Alexandria and Antioch: Jews and Judaism in the Hellenistic Period Reference library
Leonard J. Greenspoon
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...of the Hasmonean dynasty it was unfortunate indeed that this threat became a reality only four years after Alexandra's death. While the queen was still alive, but noticeably weakened, Aristobulus took aggressive steps to ensure that he, and not his elder brother Hyrcanus, would succeed their mother as king. Shortly after Alexandra's death, armed forces loyal to the two brothers clashed. Aristobulus had the military advantage, and Hyrcanus, bowing to reality, proposed a face-saving compromise compatible with his own chief interests:...
Religion and Liberty Reference library
Mehdi Bazargan
Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook
...people's reason, knowledge, thought, perception, reflection, and will are the ultimate arbiter. We have the Qur'anic injunction, “If you do not know, then ask the keepers of (knowledge and) remembrance,” (Sura 21, Verse 7) which indicates that it is proper to inquire, and to augment one's knowledge. In the meantime, the Qur'an has envisioned, without censure, the existence and expression of disagreements and differences of opinion among the faithful. It recommends the disagreements with the rulers to be referred to the Prophet and to God; which in our days,...
Kinship and Kingship: The Early Monarchy Reference library
Carol Meyers
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...site. Did environmental conditions allow local populations in the past to produce enough food to supply the needs of the number of people who are estimated to have lived at a site in a given period? Or did the ecosystem impose limitations that required the populations there to augment their food supply by trade? Is the environment especially suited for the production of one kind of commodity, thus making it possible to accumulate surpluses that can be exchanged for goods produced at other sites? The answers to such questions have great potential for...
Genesis Reference library
R. N. Whybray and R. N. Whybray
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...he is adopting his (Joseph's) sons Ephraim and Manasseh as his own sons. This action, which points beyond the brothers as individuals to their future character as Israelite tribes, would mean that the traditional number of twelve tribes (implied, for example, in 35:23–6 ) is augmented to thirteen (if Ephraim and Manasseh are to be counted instead of their father). In fact the traditional number of twelve is a fiction; they are listed in several different ways in various places in the OT, and their numbers vary between ten and thirteen. The scene of Jacob's...
Israel among the Nations: The Persian Period Reference library
Mary Joan Winn Leith
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...and the wage earning described so bitterly by Haggai could well have mattered more than the Temple. One decade after Sheshbazzar's time, Cyrus's son Cambyses (530–522 bce ) realized his father's dream of conquering Egypt. In 526 the Persian army, its ranks augmented by Greek mercenaries, invaded Egypt via northern Sinai. A Kedarite king provided camel trains bearing water skins for the desert crossing. The Persian fleet, largely Phoenician ships, penetrated the Nile mouths, and together these land and sea forces defeated the pharaoh...
John Reference library
René Kieffer and René Kieffer
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...). He fulfils the scriptures by saying ‘I am thirsty’ ( 19:28 ) and comments upon his own work on earth by saying ‘It is finished’ ( 19:30 ). The burial is that of a ‘king’. A comparison between the gospels shows that Matthew follows Mark but adds his own material in order to augment the dramatic effect of the narrative. Luke is less dependent on Mark than Matthew because he has his own information. He underlines more than Matthew and Mark that Pilate considered Jesus to be innocent. The author of the Fourth Gospel probably knows Mark's account ( contra ...
