AR via Full VR
Most locations in the Wireless are "geocoded", an advanced 3D mapping protocol that encodes real-world 3D architectural and geographical data into the Matrix. Thus, characters in full-VR may project their Persona icon into the real world as an ARO, moving it around as they would in the Matrix. They can only perceive objects by their ARO and DOT information, and cannot see anything occurring in the "real world" without access to some sort of physically present sensor system. Thus, they can "see" the Persona icons of any character whose PAN is publicly broadcasting, but anyone who stops broadcasting simply "disappears". They are incapable of physically manipulating objects, but may attempt to hack nodes near their Persona icons as normal. Mages and Technomancers have had many bemused discussions on the similarities between this process and astral projection.