All you want to know about Augmented Reality

Explore the fundamentals and usage of Augmented Reality.

You are driving in a new city, looking for directions and focusing on maintaining the right speed and following signals, too many things to look at and manage. What if you have all the details about the direction, the speed, and any signs you need to follow and can change the destination by looking at your windshield!!!

This kind of experience is achieved using Augmented Reality.

Augmented reality is an interactive experience to enhance the real world by overlaying it with a computer-generated multimodal digital augmentation.

Augmented Reality(AR) can superimpose graphics, audio, and hepatic over a real-world environment in real-time.

Augmented Reality(AR) needs to have three essential components

1. Real-time interaction
2. Combining real-world and virtual perceptions that can be visual, auditory, or hepatic
3. Accurate 3D registration of virtual and real objects

AR transforms how we work, learn and entertain with better visualization, annotations, and storytelling.

Most AR applications like Snapchat or Pokemon Go were delivered using mobile devices. AR delivery is also available on hands-free wearables such as head-mounted displays or smart glasses.

IKEA Place, an AR app, allows you to virtually place furnishings in your space (Source: IKEA)

Virtual Reality(VR)

Virtual Reality is a fully immersive simulated experience that can be similar to the real world or a completely different experience from the real world and can be explored in 360 degrees.

VR uses a computer-generated environment with scenes and objects that appear real to the user to get immersed entirely and interact with it. The computer-generated environment can be perceived using a Virtual Reality headset. These VR devices remove the vision of the real world and create an alternate world with a 3D experience.