Virtual fixture

A virtual fixture is an overlay of augmented sensory information upon a user's perception of a real environment in order to improve human performance in both direct and remotely manipulated tasks.^[1] Developed in the early 1990s by Louis Rosenberg at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Virtual Fixtures was a pioneering platform in virtual reality and augmented reality technologies.

^ Rosenberg, Louis B. (2022). "Augmented Reality: Reflections at Thirty Years". In Arai, Kohei (ed.). Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2021, Volume 1. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems. Vol. 358. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 1–11. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-89906-6_1. ISBN 978-3-030-89906-6.

[1] Rosenberg, Louis B. (2022). "Augmented Reality: Reflections at Thirty Years". In Arai, Kohei (ed.). Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2021, Volume 1. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems. Vol. 358. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 1–11. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-89906-6_1. ISBN 978-3-030-89906-6.

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