AUGMENTED REALITY — AR OVERLAY AESTHETIC

VISUAL STYLE: Augmented reality as visual language — the layering of digital information over physical space. Real environments annotated, measured, labelled, and enhanced by floating digital overlays. The aesthetic of the heads-up display applied to everyday reality.

COLOUR PALETTE: The physical world beneath is desaturated — slightly grey, slightly cool, present but receding. Over it: vivid digital overlays in a specific AR palette. Electric cyan (#00FFFF) for measurement lines, bounding boxes, and structural overlays. Bright white for text labels and data readouts. Vivid green for confirmed/recognised objects. Hot orange for alerts and highlighted points of interest. All overlay colours glow slightly — they are clearly digital, clearly not physical.

OVERLAY ELEMENTS: Bounding boxes appearing around recognised objects — precise rectangles of glowing cyan. Measurement annotations — lines with numerical labels showing distances, dimensions, angles. Floating data panels anchored to physical objects — a plant with its species name, growth data, and care instructions hovering beside it. Navigation arrows projected onto physical floors and walls.

RECOGNITION EVENTS: The moment of recognition — when the AR system identifies an object — is a visual event. A scanning animation crosses the object, then the bounding box snaps into place and data populates around it.

REGISTRATION: Digital overlays stay precisely anchored to their physical referents as the viewpoint moves — this perfect registration between digital and physical is what defines AR. The overlay moves with the object, not with the camera.

DEPTH: Overlays respect the depth of the scene — information about far objects is smaller and slightly more transparent than information about near objects.

No photographs of real people. No brand logos. Pure overlay aesthetic, pure annotation, pure augmented perception throughout.