augmented reality

noun

: an enhanced version of reality created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed through a device (such as a smartphone camera)

also : the technology used to create augmented reality

Examples of augmented reality in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In a LinkedIn post, Farley called for speeding up permitting processes, increasing spending on vocational training, leveraging robotics and augmented reality to help with these spaces and suggested an AmeriCorps-type program for these roles. —Breana Noble, Boston Herald, 13 July 2025

Rather, the company has believed, since its inception in 2014, that augmented reality can be subtle, personable, and human in the process. —Jason Phillips, USA Today, 10 July 2025

Thanks to virtual and augmented reality, uncertainties about how a couch will look in your living room are gone. —John Hall, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025

While this article focuses primarily on in-person experiential marketing, which happens in real spaces with real people, advancing technology is also making powerful digital experiential moments possible through virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and immersive online platforms. —Renae Gregoire, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1992, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for augmented reality

• bisexuality
• collegiality
• conditionality
• congeniality
• conventionality
• conviviality
• dimensionality
• directionality
• emotionality
• essentiality
• eventuality
• grammaticality

Kids Definition

augmented reality

noun

: an enhanced version of reality created by the use of technology to overlay digital information on an image of something being viewed through a device (as a smartphone camera)

also : the technology used to create augmented reality