Augmented reality in popular culture

This is a list of occurrences of augmented reality in popular culture.

Music
Pop group Duran Duran included interactive AR projections into their stage show during their 2000 Pop Trash concert tour.

Anime
The television series Dennō Coil depicts a near-future where children use AR goggles to enhance their environment with games and virtual pets. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence gives several examples of augmented reality in use, while Gundam, Gunbuster, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Voices of a Distant Star and Martian Successor Nadesico amongst several others depict 360° augmented reality cockpits that are used to display information. In Serial Experiments Lain, The Wired is overlaid onto the real world via electromagnetic radiation relaying information directly to people's brains, causing people to experience both The Wired and the real world.

Science fiction
In the Star Trek universe, the Jem'Hadar used a sort of augmented display to view the real world and what was outside the ship, integrating with the star ship's main sensors to gain an outside view of the star ship.

The television series Firefly depicts numerous AR applications, including a real-time medical scanner which allows a doctor to use his hands to manipulate a detailed and labeled projection of a patient's brain.

The table top role-playing game, Shadowrun, introduced AR into its game world. Most of the characters in the game use viewing devices to interact with the AR world most of the time.

Cybergeneration, a table top role-playing game by R. Talsorian, includes "virtuality", an augmented reality created through v-trodes, cheap, widely available devices people wear at their temples.

The books Halting State by Charles Stross and Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge include augmented reality primarily in the form of virtual overlays over the real world. Halting State mentions Copspace, which is used by cops, and the use by gamers to overlay their characters onto themselves during a gaming convention. Rainbows End mentions outdoor overlays based on popular fictional universes from H. P. Lovecraft and Terry Pratchett among others.

The term "Geohacking" has been coined by William Gibson in his book Spook Country, where artists use a combination of GPS and 3D graphics technology to embed rendered meshes in real world landscapes.

In the 1993 ABC miniseries Wild Palms, a Scientology-like organization used holographic projectors to overlay virtual reality images over physical reality.

In The Risen Empire, by Scott Westerfeld, most - if not all - people have their own "synesthesia". An AR menu unique to the user that is projected in front of them, but they can only see their own synesthesia menus. It is controlled by hand gestures, blink patterns, where the user is looking, clicks of the tongue, etc.