With changing era, technologies are also transforming rapidly. Two decades before the mobile phone was launched, and a decade before smartphones with mobile apps came into the picture, now it’s moving forward to AI, Augmented Reality Apps, and Virtual Reality. Users’ perspectives and needs vary with time and want everything to taste before it becomes reality.
Augmented Reality has been using since 1969, but it’s growing gradually till a few years back while statistics show that it’s growing with more than 40% rate year on year on basis. According to Statista, currently, there are 0.81 billion users and will be more than double by 2024.
The Sooner we’ll see AR Apps in our daily life, it can be implemented and used in Education, Medical, Marketing, Sports, Tourism, Real Estate, and almost all businesses.
Augmented Reality is the technology that merges the real world with the digital world together; Graphics, animations, sounds, and the information related to the object can be fetched using it. In simple words, when we run augmented reality apps scan on any item, it gives you information related to it or for fun apps like Snapchat those are built on AR runs the animations or graphics on your real-world table or the face through face detection, and animations or graphics which is running on your face blink if you blink, the graphics running on your face will move right & left if you move face right or left. In short, we can say it gives you experiences that don’t exist in real life.
Google ARCore, and the iOS newer version toolkits are already helping software programmers to develop the Augmented Reality apps, and the companies like Layar, Daqri, and Blippar tools help experienced programmers to make their Augmented Reality applications.
Toolkits can be used to make any Augmented Reality Mobile Apps for any industry. As the Augmented Reality name itself suggest the ‘enhance reality’; AR Apps can be used in all aspects of real life. We’ve chosen some of the most promising ideas for Augment Reality which can make you profits or the next big icon.
Shopping with AR Apps
Imagine, the feeling you will have when you see the furniture going to buy will look into your home without even purchasing it, or how good it is that without putting a shirt on you in a shopping mall, you’ll realize that the fitting of the shirt, colors and the design of the shirt goes well on you or not; All this can be achieved with the help of Augmented Reality apps. How much time & money can be saved from this, and the most important thing is you can be safe from the feeling of regret.
AR helps to measure the size of the room, the walls color of the room, and based on primary requirements it suggests the best fits for you; you can change the color of the furniture, its design, scale the size of the furniture, and can experience it before.
Sports Augmented Reality Apps
People prefer their passion over their needs. Some people prefer to enjoy the game in person and support their team while others like to watch from the comfort of their home on their Television. AR gives you the best experience of both, you can check out the speed and trajectory of the ball in the stadium, and can get the statistics of shared data by other fans. It’s not limited to see the speed of the ball or the shared statistics, while the user can live stream the game to the mobile app users as well as user can have their instant replays or can keep their stats.
Tourism Augmented Reality Applications
People love to travel and explore new places, while it’s a different thing we are stuck in our daily life and can’t come out to enjoy the beauty of nature or happenings around the world. iPhone or Android AR apps help you to turn your yard into a South African safari, a roadside mountain to a snow mountain, or fill your city road to a Disney land.
iPhone & Android AR Touring Apps
Let’s Suppose, You visit a new city and able to know everything about everything in a fraction of seconds like a native, get information about any building when the building was built, what’s the story behind this, and its specialties, Similarly, you can know about any historical places and much more things anyone can think of.
Agriculture
People’s primary requirement is food, and if a country is capable enough to grow its food then it will be the best surviving country in the rainy days. Augmented Reality applications can help our farmers to educate about new farming techniques and how to take action in different circumstances. Famers just needs to scan the crop through their AR mobile app and
information related to the nature of the crop, it can suggest the remedies, and even it can help them to sell their crop online, they only need to share the scanned information to buyers and any buyer who is interested to buy it, he can buy it online with all the facts & figures. There are many things we can do in agriculture and can build a business around this.
Education – Augmented Reality Applications
The way of educating students is changing over the period, and children are becoming smarter than the previous generation. A smarter new generation could happen because people started adopting new technologies and trends with changing times. Imagine, Teacher, showing the heart’s image in the class, instead of this if he shows the beating heart visuals, then what would be more impactful on the student’s mind, obviously the beating heart will give more understanding to the students. Similarly, Students are taken on a forest trip and they see some kinds of tree or leaves and like to know more about them simply need to use an AR-enabled mobile app, scan it and get to know the complete information of it. Practical education always got more weight than theoretical. The best AR apps can be used to educate students from class nursery to Professional studies.
Marketing
AR enables people to recognize images and if the marketing strategies are combined with this, it gives a different taste of sales. You scan the Biscuit packet in a departmental store and know the nutritional information, discounts & offers, and the alternative options for the same. Apart from this, the store can conduct a contest to win some items on completing a particular task.
It can help you a lot with offline marketing too; on a hoarding, newspaper ad, or brochure you can provide the complete information of your product or service, make a walkthrough of your store, and provide the actual offers & discounts. Let’s assume, any company is conducting a Musical Concert in any new city and people scan the advertisements of singer and singer comes out on your mobile screen and asks to join the concert with your name, or it shows you the previous concert videos and audience enjoyment during the show; definitely, the conversions will be much higher than the traditional marketing practices. I believe the future marketing practices will be much advance than today.
Painting & Interior Design Apps
Everybody wants their home or workspace of their choice and the wrong selection of paint or interior design can make your mood off and consequently somewhere it affects your work adversely, What if you get to know which color or wallpaper suits well on your walls and gives you a calculation of the material and labor cost. Painting Apps are quite on-demand nowadays, they not only scan the measurement of the walls while it gives you an idea of how will it look before getting it done. In the same way, you can select a Sofa for your Drawing Room, Paintings for your wall along with other interior objects, and can change other interior objects like lamps, TV Sets, Flower pots, and many more things and experience the beauty of AR.
Schools & Coaching Institutes
Schools & Institutes have an increasing number of students, and managing lots of students is are tedious job and requires manpower that costs a lot. Augmented Reality Enabled Camera-based mobile apps can help this by monitoring students activities in a classroom, ground, or in premises and raise alarm if something irregular happens; suppose a student is climbing the wall or any students are missing from the class, detects the students with missing dress code and many more day to day activities which should not be happened but its happening and Augmented Reality Applications can help us to eliminate these problems.
Repairs or Assembles As an Expert
We’re surrounded by machines and many times it happens, some machine got a problem and the technicians are not available, here AR can help you out with a step-by-step process with interactive visuals components to fix this, it even helps to fix the complex machines. You got almirah to assemble, but you don’t know how? then it would help you out to assemble it. There are lots of applications that need to be developed, even Audi has launched its AR Car manual for users.
Medical Industry – Best AR Apps Use
Medical Industry has been using Augment Reality for a long time ago, and its cost dropped over the period, and it’s feasible to develop an AR-based medical app nowadays. Augmented Reality Mobile Apps help doctors see patient’s MRIs in 3D images, A physiotherapist can see the movements in milliseconds, and a sports coach can analyze the movements of the player and suggest preventive measures.
Apart from this, it can help diagnose, suggest the severity level of the disease, and advise to take action. The medical industry is very vast and requires to development of good mobile applications to help people.
Building Maintenance
Your apartment’s electricity cabling, water pipes, ducts are underground, and while maintaining it; it is hard to recognize the exact place. AR help you to keep track of the record and history of each object when it’s repaired last time, and how it was fixed. It can check out the exact location of buried water pipes or gas pipes inside walls and take up the machine temperature or pipes. It can maintain the record of bulbs and materials with a small scan of a headset and crossreference with the existing data and order automatically if the stock is less.
AR Landscaping
Showing your customer the virtual tour of your yard is better than asking the client to imagine it. By simply scanning the area by your phone, you get the accurate measurements of the yard, and it automatically calculates the costs, and make users walk through with the virtual tour that how will it look after buildups.
Collaboration
In the 21st century, international businesses are faster day by day, and the development of new technologies removed all barriers. AR Mobile apps help international businesses by providing translations i.e. your colleague is in Germany and speaks German, create a common space and discuss the meetings on a virtual board and save it to watch later, then see the translations and understand the requirements. The Meeting is exchanging of thoughts while language is just a medium. Distance and Languages are merely an obstacle.
Best AR Apps Development Platforms
There are SDKs available for developing AR applications, and we’ve chosen some of the best Platforms to build the best AR apps.
Vuforia supports marker-based and marker-free Augment Reality Creation and has other good features like object recognition and 3d Modeling.
Wikitude captures developers’ attention faster in a lesser time, and it was founded in 2008 but built good value in the market. It is suitable for AR Android apps, Smart Glasses devices apps, and iOS.
ARKit is used only for the iOS platform, and it relies on Camera Sensor Data, gyroscope, and accelerometer data to detect and analyze the user’s environment for AR rendering.
ARCore’s platform is Android and developed by Google, and it is similar to the ARKit platform developed by Apple. ARKit comes with standard Augmented Reality Applications Features along with many advanced features like imagery & multiplayer.
ARToolkit is an open-source, free SDK for developing Augmented Reality Apps for various platforms. Windows. Linux and OS X are the recommended platform by ARToolkit. Some of the latest features are Flat image tracking, Simple Black Squares, Natural Feature Markers, Realtime Speed Support, and Easy Camera Calibration.
Conclusion
With changing time comes with bringing new opportunities and converting them into a billion-dollar business will be the entrepreneur of the century. Augmented Reality seems lots of potentials, and few existing apps like Snapchat, IKEA Place, and Giphy World are already doing very well. Technology regular upgradations, innovations, and monetization techniques make the impossible solutions easily possible.
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