Big tech events like Apple's World Wide Developer Conference have been showcasing augmented reality. The technology combines virtual images with the real world. Mark Niu takes us to the Augmented World Expo.

At the Augmented World Expo in Silicon Valley, you're out of place if you are NOT wearing a headset. Put them on and you can glimpse the future. Through her virtual avatar, eleven-year-old Belle Forster is interacting with other avatars in virtual space.

BELLE FORSTER AR USER "I think eventually they'll just make it so that instead of going to school, that you'll just learn right from your home and they'll be augmented reality, and they'll be a robot teacher thing."

MARK NIU SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA "Augmented reality is also re-inventing traditional games. Stereolabs has created these stereo cameras where I slip on a headset, then can play mixed reality ping pong. Whoa!"

CECILE SCHMOLLGRUBER FOUNDER & CEO, STEREOLABS "The hard part is we see the real world and we added a virtual ping pong table. But it's not a single experience. It's a multi-player experience. So both players need to see the same thing and also the third camera that you see here. It must see the same virtual object."

Software for the Stereolabs headset is also being developed for medical, military and industrial applications. Wearable tech company ODG incorporated augmented reality into this oxygen mask. If smoke fills a cockpit, it will enable pilots to still see and give them a fighting chance to land the plane.

TOM EMRICH PARTNER, SUPER VENTURES "Usually a wave of computing goes from academia to military, military to work, work to life. And, so I think we're at that work stage. Do I believe that all of us will eventually be wearing glasses Absolutely, with 1,000% certainty. And we know that because we are so attached to our phones as if they are a part of us already and they can't be. There's no way to attach a phone to you. "

Emrich is the partner of a fund that invests in augmented reality startups. He gave a talk entitled the Death of Reality, where he made some predictions.

TOM EMRICH PARTNER, SUPER VENTURES "We're seeing this already with Snapchat where you can put a filter on. I can become a dog, I can be a kitty, I can become younger, an old man. In the future, if we are all wearing augmented reality glasses, will we have a fixed identity I think not. I think we will give rise to this notion of embodiment. Being able to be multiple identities."

Emrich believes mobile apps will show consumers the value of augmented reality. He's convinced that when fashion, convenience and necessity converge, consumers will feel as though we're missing out, then we're NOT wearing our specs. Mark Niu, CGTN, Santa Clara, California.