If you’re augmenting something should that thing become part of the story you’re telling?
If your augmented reality is presented on a blank tabletop is the table really part of your mis-en-scene, or is it just ‘to hand?
If the ‘real’ world is available to you as content, narrative or material it woudl be a shame to waste it.
Shouldn’t augmented reality relate to the reality you’re augmenting? Is it enough to just ‘add’?
Augment:
verb (used with object)
to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase:
verb (used without object)
to become larger.