People with Autism Spectrum Disorder frequently struggle with eye contact, i.e. the ability to reciprocate another person’sdirect look. This restricts their access to social interaction and thus constitutes a considerable barrier to social inclusion. This paper explores the possibility to employ virtual and augmented reality to devise training programs aimed at improvingeye contact skills in the population at stake.The paper starts with a critique of the usage of virtual reality, highlighting some of its limitations: most importantly, the discomfort generated by most headsets. Hence, the paper proposes a shift towards augmented reality. By comparingthe two technologies, it shows that the latter, in addition to proving at least as effective as virtual reality, is also more tol­erable, both physically and socially, and easier to incorporate into everyday social settings. Augmented reality, the paperconcludes, may become an important component of future interventions targeting social inclusion for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder