When you’re too tired of the real world, and the virtual world is one stretch too far away, that’s when you make use of augmented reality. Augmented reality is a thing of the future. It has a good scope, and it is bound to happen. Scientists and researchers are already focussing their efforts on making augmented reality, like Tim Cook said,inevitably a part of your real life.
Augmented Reality In Education
How boring is it on a scale of 9 to 10 flipping pages and reading those clustered words and trying to figure out those two-dimensional diagrams? With several developments in technology, we can thoroughly and accurately make use of augmented reality in the field of education. Imagine you are an engineering student majoring in mechanical engineering, and you just purchased this Turbocharging Performance Handbook. On the cover page of this book is a car fitted with engines, and without a chassis. Now, what if you could see the 3D image of this car? And not just from one angle! You could see the details of the engine, how the various parts of the car are connected etc. All this just by using an Augmented app and scanning the image on the book. Studying becomes so much easier when you stop picturing and start seeing and observing. How much simpler it would become if you could see the working of the human jaws and teeth, the 3D model of a molecule, or even an augmented model of a monument!
Augmented Reality In Fashion
The fashion industry has had tremendous growth and has been developing ever since it has adapted to augmented reality. How about shopping without having to change into the clothes on the rack physically? Sounds good, doesn’t it? This can only happen by using augmented reality. Uniqlo has given its customers the ability to try out a variety of clothes without having to keep changing into them. Now, we don’t have to go by the ‘only three clothes allowed in the trial room’ rule. We can choose anything we like, any color we like and any size we think would fit and see how we’d look in it. The famous brand Sephora has also gotten a hold of the AR concept and has teamed up with facial recognition company called ModiFace and has launched an app called Virtual Artist which allows you to see how you would look with the Cherry Skies lipstick on or the retractable waterproof eyeliner wing. Now you don’t even have to put your makeup on to test it and buy it. Just use AR and get it done with.
Augmented Reality In Entertainment
The world of entertainment has flourished by making use of augmented reality. Snapchat, which is one of the most used apps, uses augmented reality for its filters. And the result is Instagram feed and Facebook timelines filled with pictures of people with the popular doggy filter. Pokemon Go, the most downloaded game of 2016 also uses augmented reality to place a Charmander in the park by the swings, or a Snorlax on a chair in the airport, or a Pikachu behind the takeaway store, for people to catch ‘em all! One of London’s aquariums called Frozen Planet also implements augmented reality by letting you experience an interactive trip through the icy landscapes with furry, white polar bears and killer whales. It includes audio and visual effects, and the journey ends with the amazing display of the Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights. The arcades have reached a whole other level by using AR. The simulators put up in these arcades let people come and use them and go on deadly adventures and counter strike sprees without having to leave the seat.
Augmented Reality In Business
The Augmented/Virtual Reality report Q2 2015 states that the AR/VR market is going to bloat up to about $150 billion by 2020. IKEA, the famous furniture company, has already made use of augmented reality by letting its customers scan the image of a particular furniture piece from their catalog and see how it goes with the wall colors or the curtains or with the rest of the furniture in the room. So people can now see if their new furniture goes with the interiors without having to imagine it or move things around. The online shopping business will thrive if they all start implementing AR. The manufacturing of products would also become easier. Project managers could monitor the daily progress by just placing AR markers on the products. Travel businesses would also blossom with new and sophisticated apps that would show tourists directions, translate the road signs and give them information about sight-seeing places. When businesses are up to date with the trends of technology, when they show a willingness to adapt to changes, that’s when they show progress, and that’s when their stats go up.
Augmented Reality In Sports
Although like stated above, AR is a thing of the future, it has been around for quite a few years now. It was first used in sports in 1998 to cast a yellow first down marker in an NFL game. Augmented reality was also utilized in the NBA 2016 playoffs to replay slam dunks and fade-aways. AR was also used to highlight the three-point line whenever a shot was made from behind the line. It stayed highlighted until the opposition player was in possession of the ball. Long gone are the days when game plans were made of cardboard or a sketch book.
Companies like Sports vision has been using AR to display lane markers for swimming, diving and other such games in the Olympics. Interactive squash has also become a thing now. Augmented reality can now be used to make game plans, giving you 3D images of the players, letting you place them in their respective positions and planning the next move. Archery has also gotten a lot more interesting with AR by creating an arena of targets to shoot. Augmented reality has made both training and broadcasting of sports simpler and more sophisticated.
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