Augmented reality (AR) is a rapidly emerging technology that superimposes digital objects onto real‐world scenes as viewed in real time through a smartphone, tablet, or headset. Whereas AR has been adopted for retail, entertainment, and professional training, it also has potential as a novel, mobile, and efficacious treatment modality for psychological disorders. In particular, extinction‐based therapies (e.g., anxiety, substance use disorders) could utilize AR to present stimuli in natural environments, enhancing generalizability beyond the clinic. The limited psychological literature on AR has focused on the treatment of simple phobias. Here, with the goal of bringing this technology to the attention of clinicians and researchers, we describe AR, contrast it with virtual reality, review the theoretical foundation for extinction‐based therapies, provide examples for the treatment of substance use disorders, and identify theoretical, practical, and implementation‐based research questions.

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增强现实的临床潜力

增强现实 (AR) 是一项迅速崛起的技术，可将数字对象叠加到通过智能手机、平板电脑或耳机实时查看的现实世界场景中。虽然 AR 已被用于零售、娱乐和专业培训，但它也有潜力成为一种新颖、移动且有效的心理障碍治疗方式。特别是，基于灭绝的疗法（例如，焦虑、物质使用障碍）可以利用 AR 在自然环境中呈现刺激，增强临床以外的普遍性。关于 AR 的有限心理学文献集中在简单恐惧症的治疗上。在这里，为了让临床医生和研究人员注意到这项技术，我们描述了 AR，将其与虚拟现实进行对比，回顾了基于灭绝的疗法的理论基础，