Augmented reality system with an active portable anchor

AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEM WITH AN ACTIVE PORTABLE A method, apparatus, and augmented reality system comprising a network (102) and a communications port (103) in the network (102). The communications port (103) is configured to communicate with a portable active anchor and send a current physical anchor position of the active portable anchor relative to an object to the active portable anchor in which the current physical anchor position of the active portable anchor relative to the object is determined using a physical anchor position of the active portable anchor and a physical object position of the object. 100 CLIENTDEVICES I COMPUTER I SERVER COMPUTER I 128 MODEL 102 106 NETWORK CLIENT COMMUNICATIONS C S103 TRACKING /132 SERVER 11 I SYSTEM I MOBILE I PORTABLE I PHONE I ANCHOR UNIT 120 AIRCRAFT I SMART GLASSES I FIG. 1 HUMAN