Augmented Reality - Virtual is no more in virtual world

         Once upon a time foreigner came to unknown city and open his map and searching for cafe to have coffee.but now he can raised his phone and see detail view of that area.

Above I mention how augmented reality can interact in our day to day life. Few years before graphics only inside computer devices but now technology changing rapidly therefore cutting edge technologies like Augmented Reality can pull computer graphics out to real world.It can combine real world environment with virtual environment.


What is Augmented Reality?

Augmented Reality is integrating digital information with real world image or video.AR can extract real world picture and include information or extra details in to that details.Important thing is this information including happen in real time and in quick manner.Aim of Augmented Reality is generate world that user cannot separate real world from virtual world.

How does Augmented Reality work ?

Mainly Augmented Reality can do in 3 simple steps

1. Recognition: Recognition of an image, an object, a face or a body
2. Tracking: Real-time localization in space of the image, object, face, or body
3. Mix: Superposition of a media (video, 3D, 2D, text, etc…) on top of this image, object, face or body that we identified and tracked in step 1 and 2.

In this process we can see how fast that need to have recognition and tracking happen .because when we raise our phone to some picture that application need to identify that picture as soon as possible with relevant coordinates and locations.And also accuracy need to have in higher position because later virtual details apply according to these information.to get more information about these process use this references 1 and references 2

above image we can see that girl hold book and it's only has red dot but after applying augmented reality techniques we can see apple on top of the book.That's the power of this cutting edge technology.

Usage of Augmented Reality

Augmented reality use in many fields like entertainment, military training, engineering design, robotics, manufacturing and other industries. And also there are some real world applications by using augmented reality like this

• Live sports streaming displaying graphs and displaying areas and real time player tracking
• Video games with digital elements blended into the user's environment
• Virtually trying on clothes through a webcam while online shopping.
• A display in a pilot's helmet that allows the pilot to, in effect, see through the aircraft.
• Displaying information about a tourist attraction by pointing a phone at it.

to get more information about best augmented reality application you can use this reference

My verdict

Augmented Reality is one of the best innovation in this era because it's going over simple mobile game to advance military systems.And it's still in early stages and virtual become reality in very near future.when we saw these kinds of things only in scientific fictions or Iron man movie collection.And in near future people like us can experience this interesting technology.By using these kind of technologies it's too easy to bring moon to earth and experience it as in reality rather than go and watch it.