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>the real world with an overlay

You mean the concept of augmented reality, which has been around for decades? I highly doubt that the producers of any of these shows even saw your ideas, much less used them.
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To settle this completely, no one stole anyones ideas. This is a common phenomenon that happens between those who watch any sort of entertainment media and percieve ideas on how it can be better. To be fair, they probably had the idea for ordinal scale way before even the second season of sao.