Feel your Dream World Come Alive with Augmented Reality!

This phenomenal new technology is taking the way we see things to a whole new level. The more refined version of it is being launched to enhance the experience in different spheres of entertainment, medical practice, military application and even shopping. The idea behind augmented reality is to enhance your present reality by inducing virtual information to it. Unlike Virtual Reality, AR simply amplifies the way you see, hear or touch things in your natural surrounding making it a mixed reality experience. Through this, you need not inhabit fabricated an entirely different world but only see the world you live in differently.

There are several versions of how the technology is being utilized which is opening up various other applications. With the help of a digital compass, velocity meter or accelerometer as well as GPS there is a wide range of software apps that are being used for putting up virtual markers. This concept allows you to not only see the availability of shops, restaurants or marketplaces in your area but to actually see where they are in your current surrounding. Metaio, one of the leading corporate in augmented reality development had launched an online browser Junaio which allows you to identify and browse shops and landmarks in your location. AR has also opened up new applications in projecting reality in a better way through the use of laser plasma technology or simply calculating the difference between a known projections and an altered projection. Think of an interactive keyboard being projected on your, keyboard or even a hologram indicator showing on your car front glass. This technology is widely used by the transparent targeting glass found in fighter jet planes to support enhanced locking of targets. BMW is one of the pioneers in using heads-up displays in their luxury cars.

Enhancing the way we see things has made it even more convenient for us to perceive an object which was otherwise more dependent on the use of our imagination. Ikea has devised the use of super-imposition in their augmented reality catalog viewing app. This app allows you to actually see a 3D version of the furniture that you are viewing in their catalog along with its various features and uses. The use of AR keeps getting better and better as Mitsubishi along with Mataio has come up with an app that lets you see consumer products in their actual size infused with the environment of your home. With such advancement, you can actually see where you can set up your new washing machine or home theatre without actually bringing it home. Project Tango is recognized as an innovation from Google and is meant to do a lot of incredible things involving virtual reality. It allows your Android device to scan your entire environment using three primary principles; motion tracking using accelerometer or gyroscope, depth perception which involves real sense 3D technology and area learning which allows your device to mark out and remember the area around you. Lenovo had launched their Phab 2 Pro along with Asus’s Zen Phone 3 which was Tango enabled and were meant for consumer usage. AR has, of course, found a much-popularized application in gaming and several new innovations are awaited by millions of people. Collaboration between Niantic and Nintendo has to lead to the creation of Pokemon GO. This childhood anime has received a newly found home in the hearts of gamers all around the world. It employs a GPS based tracking system which uses your phone’s camera to track virtual Pokemon in the real world.

AR technology has become a sensation and has helped bring forth a new generation of computer technology. Not only can you engage in live interactive entertainment in a virtually enhanced environment but also take benefits from AR training simulations. The possibilities in AR Rnd are enormous and new innovations are arriving each year. Maybe we are not far from getting our hands on the Iron Man heads-up display or even the interactive maps seen in Avatar.