Augmented reality (AR) is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data.
What is Augmented Reality?
Combines real and virtual objects in a real environment
Is interactive in real-time
Registers (aligns) real and virtual objects with each other.
AR systems have the following three characteristics:
Augmented vs. Virtual RealityAugmented Reality Virtual Reality
Closer to the real world. It add graphics, sounds & smell to the natural world, as it exists.
The user can interact with the real world, and at the same time can see, both the real and virtual world co-existing.
User is not cut off from the reality
Creates immersive, computer generated environments which replaces real world
present a view that is under the complete control of the computer.
Virtual reality serves for at totally immersive environment .
The user is completely immersed in an artificial world and cut off from real world.
COMPONENTS THAT MAKE AN AR SYSTEM WORKS
Head-mounted display / Portable
Displays
Tracking system
Mobile computing power
There are two basic types of HMDS:
video see-
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optical see-throu
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Just as monitor allow us to see text and graphics generated by computers, head-mounted displays (HMDs) will enable us to view graphics and text created by augmented-reality systems
This is how AR works
1.Pick A Real World Scene
2.Add your Virtual Objects in it
3.Delete Real World Objects
4.Not Virtual Reality since Environment Real
Augmented Reality Application
MedicalEntertainmentMilitary TrainingEngineering DesignMarketing And salesNavigation & Information
Marketing & Sales
Tissot Watch Simulator by Holition
AR Jewellery Shopping by Boutique Accessoires
LEGO Box Simulation by metaio
MINI CabrioSimulator
Digital Cosmetic Mirror
Virtual Dressing Room
NAVIGATION & INFORMATION
Spyglass AR Kompass by Happy Magenta
Wikitude by Wikitude GmbH LAYAR Vision by Layar
CONCLUSIONAugmented reality is another step further into the digital age as we will soon see our environments change dynamically either through a smartphone, glasses, car windshields and even windows in the near future to display enhanced content and media right in front of us. This has amazing applications that can very well allow us to live our lives more productively, more safely, and more informatively.
Maybe in the future, we will see our environments become augmented to display information based on our own interests through built-in RFID tags and augmentations being implemented through holographic projections surrounding the environments without a use of an enabling technology. It would be incredible to no longer wonder where to eat, where to go, or what to do; our environment will facilitate our interactions seamlessly. We will no longer be able to discern what is real and what is virtual, our world will become a convergence of digital and physical media.
FUTURE OF AR Next generation of smart phones will be able to handle augmented reality to a much greater extent due to improved batteries, compasses, graphics chips and processors. The mobility of the smart phone and the location based services make AR a very popular investment.The line between virtual and physical begins to blur as augmented technology growsGreater access to information based on AR will mean greater awareness of surroundingDesire for increased AR technology in the field of medicine, as well as other fields.
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