I was in a research meeting this morning where we discussing what is often known as extended reality or mixed reality. Sometimes it is also called blended reality or augmented reality.
When we really went through how it is likely to be used in practice, we agreed that not one of those terms is quite right. In most cases, people won’t use such technologies to replace the reality around them, but rather to provide information about it.
We agreed that a more apt term would be annotated reality. I wonder whether that will catch on.