Mobile Augmented Reality
The Future of Digital Life:
• If you think that the web has revolutionized the way we live now, no, wait for a moment, the Augmented Reality is arriving in to the scene.
• AR should change everything in computing. Starting from the way that we use it, to telling night time bed stories to children.
Let us explore the huge potential the Augmented Reality holds for the future: AR is not confined to a specific industry. There is AR in Gaming, Automobiles, Defense & Security, Education etc. With the new era of mobile computing, suddenly huge potential is unleashed. Several apps using this technology, such as Yelp, Layar, Urbanspoon’s Scope, are already available on the iPhone and Android.
Research Activities: Although researchers and engineers at Universities and high-tech companies are still working on developing and perfecting the technology, enthusiasts say that an Augmented Reality System may hit the market by 2020 and that a sophisticated AR system could become the primary means of accessing information and potentially eliminate the need for desktops, laptops, smart-phones and such.
Applications:
• Apple has demonstrated the power of Applications through their innovative product of the time, iPhone.
• The trend is continuing and taking a massive shape. Not only with Apple but with others too, for example Google’s Android, Blackberry etc.,
• Augmented Reality Applications users are expected to surpass 150 million by the year 2012. Smart phones thrive to become smartest!
Some Great AR Mobile Applications:
Layar, Yelp Monacle, Wikitude World Browzer, AR Compass, Acrossair, Worksnug, Dishpointer, Pocket Universe, Car Finder, Panoramoscope.
Some Great AR Startups:
• Tier I : Metaio, Total Immersion
• Tier II : Zugara, Layar
• Tier III : int13, Ogmento
Mobile Augmented Reality is one of the great business opportunities.
This industry is primed to explode!
“It’s 9 am in the augmented reality industry…without vision people perish…it’s your chance to bake a big pie before you start slicing it up…it’s time for you to get dressed…good luck to you, I’ll be watching you”
- Bruce Sterling’s (the prophet of the augmented reality industry) keynote…
/Malick.
