Before our eyes, a new sport is being born: air races on jet planes in geolocated augmented reality

Pay attention to this video here, taken from the article on Membrana.Ru of April 27 :



As you can see, the video demonstrates air races and aerobatics performed in geolocated augmented reality: a kind of circumference or hoops forming a virtual tunnel visible to both pilots and viewers are “suspended” over the airfield — the pilot leads his plane through it and the viewers fascinating explosive virtual special effects are fascinated when the plane penetrates another hoop.
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The pilot watches the augmented reality through the head-mounted helmet, and the audience - with the help of a large computer screen or (as the voice-over of the video announcer says) using his own iPhone and iPad.

All this is very similar to a computer game, only it happens in reality - the truth, augmented. And the creator of these races was inspired by the tattoo sub-racers from the first Star Wars episode.

It is also important to note that for some reason Membrana.Ru does not translate “augmented reality” with the phrase “augmented reality”, but uses the terms “mixed reality” and “augmented reality”. For me personally, this translation caused at first irritation with its unusualness (and the inevitable blurring of the term), but then I thought about it and realized that the translation “mixed reality” has a certain right to life, since it is impossible not to admit: augmented reality leads to the confusion of reality and virtuality.

An important advantage of the usual phrase “augmented reality”, from my point of view, is the ability to clarify it to the form of “geographically augmented reality”; This refinement can be used to distinguish in its speech that augmented reality, in which virtual elements are tied to real space coordinates (for example, the tunnels of these reactive aerogonokes) from such augmented reality, in which virtual elements are tied simply to some drawn (and visible computer ) markers , so they allow you to pull yourself together and move the person who takes and moves these markers - such is, for example, the video in which Hatsune Miku dances to the tune of Caramelldansen :



But the phrase "geographically mixed reality" would look ridiculous, so that to achieve the same meaning would have to use longer words: "georeferenced mixed reality", for example.

Although the phrase “geographically augmented reality” turned out to be already so long that it does not fit into the thirty-five-character limit on the size of the Habrahabr tag. Maybe it’s time to start using some kind of abbreviated synonym - “geo-filled reality”, for example. But it is clear that then the search for the words “augmented reality” will not find the word “geo-filled reality”, unless it becomes guided by a special dictionary of synonyms (and it will not, even not expect).