Augmented reality helps you add information and meaning to a real object or place. Augmented reality unlike virtual reality does not create a simulated reality. Video games have been entertaining us since 30 years. Computer graphics have become sophisticated and the video games today have surpassed our imagination. Engineers are pulling out graphics from your television screen and integrating them with real world environments.

This new technology is referred to as augmenting reality. In here, what you see is not real but only feel it is real. It blurs the line between what is real and what computer is generated by enhancing what we see, hear and feel. Video games companies are looking at augmented reality video technology to make their creations more real and attractive. Augmented reality will truly change the way we see the world. Augmented reality will add special effects, graphics and sounds and will give you the feeling that you are actually there. A company called Total Immersion makes software that applies augmented reality to baseball cards. Just go online, download this software and hold your baseball card against your webcam. The software will recognize the card and displays related video on your computer screen. When you do so augmented reality video will come into picture and you can feel as though a real player is in front of you. This is the magic augmented reality video can do.

 Augmented reality video is a part of all gaming software today. Video game manufacturers are taking full advantage of augmented reality video. It makes a huge difference to traditional video games that only had a 2D effect. You can get a 3D effect with augmented reality video. Just imagine how cool it would be to take your video games outside on to the real field or racing track? Sounds interesting right? Augmented reality video is making a big difference today in every field be it gaming, tourism and cell phones. With augmented reality, Zombies in your game will come to life and you will have a feeling that you are actually one among all the characters in the game. Augmented reality involves layering of digital objects over a camera view of the world, allowing users to interact with an environment transformed by virtual objects. The game developers have been trying to implement augmented reality into games that will take the gaming industry to a new level.