This timeline is intended to highlight some of the scholarly and theoretical developments in augmented reality, as opposed to more business- or technology-based developments.
For a more comprehensive timeline of the latter types of developments, visit the excellent “History of Virtual and Augmented Reality Timeline,” created by Zenka’s Jenny Carden.
Notable Developments in Augmented Reality:
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2009
- Google launches Google Goggles
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2009Google launches Google Goggles, which allowed people to take photos with their smartphones and then search the internet for information about the object(s) in the photograph.
Notable Theoretical Contributions to Augmented Reality:
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2008
- "Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools"
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2008Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools. Eds. Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, and Ollie Oviedo. Electronic Mediations 22. Minneapolis and London: U of Minnesota Press, 2008.
- Pedersen, Isabel. "MyLifeBits, Augmented Reality, and a Rhetoric of Need."
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06.2008Pedersen, Isabel. "MyLifeBits, Augmented Reality, and a Rhetoric of Need." Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 22.3 (2008): 375-384. DOI: 10.1080/10304310801919429
- Pedersen, Isabel. "A Semiotics of Human Actions for Wearable Augmented Reality Interfaces."
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10.2008Pedersen, Isabel. "A Semiotics of Human Actions for Wearable Augmented Reality Interfaces." Semiotica 155 (October 2008): 183–200. DOI: 10.1515/semi.2005.2005.155.1-4.183.
2012
- Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks
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2012Communication Matters: Materialist Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks. Eds. Jeremy Packer and Stephen B. Crofts Wiley. New York: Routledge, 2012. Print.
- Farman, Jason. Mobile Interface Theory
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2012Farman, Jason. Mobile Interface Theory: Embodied Space and Locative Media. New York and London: Routledge, 2012.
- Munnerley, Danny et al. "Confronting an Augmented Reality."
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03.2012
Munnerley, Danny, Matt Bacon, Anna Wilson, James Steele, John Hedberg, & Robert Fitzgerald. "Confronting an augmented reality." Research in Learning Technology [Online], 20 (2012): n. pag. Web. 9 Apr. 2016
- Billinghurst, Mark and Andreas Dünser. "Augmented Reality in the Classroom."
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07.2012Billinghurst, Mark and Andreas Dünser. "Augmented Reality in the Classroom."Computer 45.7 (July 2012): 56-63. DOI: 10.1109/MC.2012.111
2013
- Pedersen, Isabel. "Ready to Wear: A Rhetoric of Wearable Computers and Reality Shifting Media."
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- Wu, Hsin-Kai et al. "Current status, opportunities and challenges of augmented reality in education"
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03.2013Wu, Hsin-Kai, Silvia Wen-Lu Lee, Hsin-Yi Chang, and Jyh-Chong Liang. "Current status, opportunities and challenges of augmented reality in education." Computers & Education 62 (March 2013): 41-49. DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2012.10.024
- Pedersen, Isabel. " Ready to wear (or not): Examining the rhetorical impact of proposed wearable devices"
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06.2013Pedersen, Isabel. "Ready to wear (or not): Examining the rhetorical impact of proposed wearable devices." Technology and Society (ISTAS), 2013 IEEE International Symposium (27-29 June 2013): 2012-202. DOI:10.1109/ISTAS.2013.6613119
- FitzGerald, Elizabethe et al. "Augmented Reality and Mobile Learning: The State of the Art."
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09.2013FitzGerald, Elizabeth, Rebecca Ferguson, Anne Adams, Mark Gaved, Yishay Mor, and Rhodri Thomas. "Augmented Reality and Mobile Learning: The State of the Art." International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning 5.4 (2013): 43–58. http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/38386
- Cuendet, Sébastien. "Designing Augmented Reality for the Classroom."
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10.2013Cuendet, Sébastien. "Designing Augmented Reality for the Classroom." Computers & Education 68 (October 2013): 557-569. DOI :10.1016/j.compedu.2013.02.015
- Encheva, Lyuba and Isabel Pedersen. "‘One Day…': Google's Project Glass, Integral Reality and Predictive Advertising."
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11.2013Encheva, Lyuba and Isabel Pedersen. "‘One Day…': Google's Project Glass, Integral Reality and Predictive Advertising." Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 28.2 (2014): 235-246. Published online 01 Nov 2013. DOI:10.1080/10304312.2013.854874.