Wearable computing and augmented reality are merging fast to deliver completely new experience. An Augmented Reality Watch can extend your favorite timepiece. It can add handful of features to a $20 watch. It can make a wrist band ticking.

Augmented Reality Watch

The idea of the augmented reality watch concept is to leverage a wearable camera to capture images, to run object recognition algorithms and to show additional information on a wearable display. Software of an augmented reality system can easily recognize simple shapes such as circle, square, line. That is why a wrist watch would be ideal as one of the controlling devices for an augmented reality system. Wrist watches are:

• Visible when needed. Hidden under a shirt sleeve most of the time;
• Accessible when both hands are busy;
• Accessible faster comparing to voice commands.

The challenge is to tune augmented reality algorithms to recognize a particular watch, so the system is not activated with other watches. A trip to London may be surprising if you see calendar reminders being augmented around Big Ben.

The Augmented Reality Watch is still a concept but one day we may find it available. That is why the picture was heavily edited.

Thanks for reading. Try to think about how augmented reality can make your life easier.