Augmented reality
Augmented reality is a technology that overlaps the information in the real world. It’s a mixture of real life and virtual reality. The augmented reality applications are developed by using special 3D programs that allow the developer to create a connection between a marker or work object in the real world and the information generated by the computer.
This technology was used for the first time in 1990 by the military fighter aircraft, in the form of a heads-up display showing basic information about navigation (Jesse Emspak, 2018). Later on, in 2009, when MIT Media Lab created a new device called SixthSense that has incorporated a camera, projector, smartphone, and mirror. The user could manipulate the projected image from this device (Jesse Emspak, 2018). Another example of augmented technology was in 2013 when Google brought on marketplace Google Glasses. Due to privacy issues, those were pulled out from the marketplace in 2015 (Jesse Emspak, 2018).
Today, more technology companies are attracted by the benefit of this technology. Lots of applications that use the augmented technology are developed. To mention a few:
• browsers that are using the camera by pointing to a real-world object with the benefit to display information about an object.
• games that are bringing the real world to your interaction, like Pokémon.
• Global Positioning System (GPS) that track user location.
• Heads Up Display that animate useful driving information above car dashboard.
• Coloring books developed by Disney Company, which use the camera to detect which character to color and using the software re-creates the character in 3D.
A long time ago the augmented reality was a futuristic technology seen only in movies, but today is adopted by manufacturing industry, healthcare, military and applicable in retail and marketing departments.
Augmented reality is a technology that overlaps the information in the real world. It’s a mixture of real life and virtual reality. The augmented reality applications are developed by using special 3D programs that allow the developer to create a connection between a marker or work object in the real world and the information generated by the computer.
This technology was used for the first time in 1990 by the military fighter aircraft, in the form of a heads-up display showing basic information about navigation (Jesse Emspak, 2018). Later on, in 2009, when MIT Media Lab created a new device called SixthSense that has incorporated a camera, projector, smartphone, and mirror. The user could manipulate the projected image from this device (Jesse Emspak, 2018). Another example of augmented technology was in 2013 when Google brought on marketplace Google Glasses. Due to privacy issues, those were pulled out from the marketplace in 2015 (Jesse Emspak, 2018).
Today, more technology companies are attracted by the benefit of this technology. Lots of applications that use the augmented technology are developed. To mention a few:
• browsers that are using the camera by pointing to a real-world object with the benefit to display information about an object.
• games that are bringing the real world to your interaction, like Pokémon.
• Global Positioning System (GPS) that track user location.
• Heads Up Display that animate useful driving information above car dashboard.
• Coloring books developed by Disney Company, which use the camera to detect which character to color and using the software re-creates the character in 3D.
A long time ago the augmented reality was a futuristic technology seen only in movies, but today is adopted by manufacturing industry, healthcare, military and applicable in retail and marketing departments.
Click on the link below to read more about the augmented reality in medicine:
Augmented reality lets doctors peer inside the body like never before
Augmented reality lets doctors peer inside the body like never before