Augmented Reality Will Change The Way We Work!

What is Augmented Reality?

Augmented reality is the use of technology to impose information — sounds, images, and text — in the real world we see. Think of the “Minority Report” or “Iron Man” style of interactivity.

Often people confuse between Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (VR). Virtual Reality is a computer-generated environment for you to interact with while Augmented Reality is an ‘addition’to the reality around you.

Simply put, Augmented Reality (AR) is a digital extension of your physical world.

With the help of advanced AR technologies (e.g., adding computer vision, incorporating AR cameras into smartphone applications and object recognition) the information about the world around the user becomes interactive and digitally manipulated.

Augmented reality is often presented as a ‘futuristic’ technology, but a form of it has been around for several years. Remember the heads-up display in many fighter aircraft back in the 1990s would show information about the altitude, direction, and speed of the plane and only a few years later they were able to identify the targets in the field of view.

In the past decade, various organizations have built devices & programs which gave us augmented reality; MIT Media Lab’s Sixth Sense, Google…