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Word of the Day: Augmented reality
To augment something means to make something better by adding value to it.
Some Mazda cars now come with a head-up display.
You can see information such as speed displayed on a small transparent screen while you are looking ahead out of the windscreen.
You do not have to look down at the instrument cluster. This is augmented reality.
Augmented reality is a new version of reality that has been enhanced by computer images.
Pokémon Go is a digital game that is superimposed over real-life maps.
Both the head-up display for cars and Pokemon Go are good examples of what’s called augmented reality.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is likely to be understood by a reader who has at least an 8th-grade education (age 13-14) and should be fairly easy for most adults to read.
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 65.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.