Augmented Reality – Disadvantages

References provided in Literature Section

• Instrument registration and modeling software are not always accurate (Haller, Billinghurst, & Thomas, 2007; Whitton & Wendt, 2009)
• Eye fatigue and inaccurate depth perception are problems with AR (Haller, Billinghurst, & Thomas, 2007; Rolland & Fuchs, 2000)
• May interfere with the user’s field of vision in the real world, leading to accidents (Cain & Armstrong, 2009)
• Some applications are expensive or proprietary and systems are not interoperable (EDUCASE, 2005)
• Currently no formula to determine the best amount of augmentation for a task (Lee, Kim, & Billinghurst, 2007)
• The potential for cognitive overload exists if too much augmented information is available (O’Shea, Mitchell, Johnston, & Dede, 2007)
• Privacy and security may become issues (Arrison, 2010)