Loosely-coupled mixed reality: Using the environment metaphorically

Mixed reality refers to the compositing of synthetic and real objects. The two forms of mixed reality are the augmented reality and augmented virtuality. The association between the real and virtual objects, in both cases,is usually desired to be as tight and explicit as possible. The paper proposes a new form of mixed reality called the "Loosely coupled Mixed Reality" which uses only minimal explicit and technologically supported association cues between the real and virtual objects.