Specifics of Visual Perception of The Augmented Reality in The Context of Education

Paper deals with visual perception, which is a prerequisite for the functioning of augmented reality and very important area in the context of the use of augmented reality in education. The paper aims to analyse the specifics of visual perception and lists the characteristics of augmented reality systems and applications from the perceptual point of view. Characteristics of augmented reality from the point of view of visual perception reflect primarily the form and the nature of the added information, cognitive difficulty of processing information presented to a user, its decoding and processing, properties of augmented reality systems and their potential applications in education. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.