AR APPS: An Exciting and Useful Innovation
Augmented reality apps use our environment as a digital interface to provide us with the information relating to that environment or the object.
AR APPS: An Exciting and Useful Innovation
By
Mishal Shaheen
Augmented reality apps use our environment as a digital interface to provide us with the information relating to that environment or the object. AR apps are an advanced form of virtual reality apps and find their use in many dimensions of life. Some practical applications are discussed as under:
3D viewer
Augmented reality in 3D viewers allows life-sized objects with 3D to be viewed in the environment targeted by the viewer. This is important for architects, designers, and engineers where they can use augmented reality through trackers that are basically images linked to 3D models.
Browsers
Browsers integrated with the use of augmented reality allow users to view specific infrastructure, buildings and objects in their environment through their mobile lens and then get details of the targeted material like its market value, estimated rent, location, mapping, resource availability, and other useful legal data.
Games
In recent times, the Pokémon Go game has earned huge fame in the gaming industry. The main feature is the involvement of augmented reality in this game. Due to AR, the player is able to catch all the required characters of the games present in his environment using GPS and locating services. The character seems to be a part of environment which makes the whole gaming experience even more fascinating as it involves interaction with the environment.
Reality GPS
We normally use geolocation and mapping system on our mobiles on a mapping app. However, with the use of reality GPS integrated with augmented reality, this experience becomes so much easier, faster and practical than the usual way. Just point your mobile camera on the road and type the destined location, the augmented reality app will instantly mark the road viewed through the lens on your mobile screen with directions. This way you have no chance of getting confused like the conventional mapping methods.
Augmented reality is fun and fascinating
Augmented reality is fun and fascinating as it welcomes us into actually making our environment digitalized and more familiar to us. AR has changed the face of smartphones and apps. AR technically provides the user with detailed information in regard to its environment by amplifying the details of the environment. Holograms and interactive 3D models make this experience even more fascinating.