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5 leading AR development platforms creating exciting applications and experiences
AR applications have spanned commercial industries such as education, communications, medicine, and entertainment. An AR development platform can provide the tools and resources necessary for creating AR applications and unlocking the potential of immersive reality technology. Leveraging a mature pl…
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AR applications have spanned commercial industries such as education, communications, medicine, and entertainment. An AR development platform can provide the tools and resources necessary for creating AR applications and unlocking the potential of immersive reality technology.…
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AR applications have spanned commercial industries such as education, communications, medicine, and entertainment. An AR development platform can provide the tools and resources necessary for creating AR applications and unlocking the potential of immersive reality technology. Leveraging a mature platform substantially reduces the barrier to entry versus building from scratch. Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated 3D content, overlaying digital information like images, videos, and sounds onto it. The content can span multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory.
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Analysis
AR can also be defined as a system that incorporates three basic features, a combination of real and virtual worlds, real-time interaction, and accurate 3D registration of virtual and real objects. This technology can be experienced through devices such as smartphones, tablets, and AR glasses. AR transforms the way people interact with their environment by providing additional layers of information, making everyday tasks more engaging and efficient. This experience is seamlessly interwoven with the physical world such that it is perceived as an immersive aspect of the real environment. In this way, AR alters one’s ongoing perception of a real-world environment, whereas virtual reality completely replaces the user’s real-world environment with a simulated one. The earliest functional AR systems that provided immersive mixed-reality experiences for users were invented in the early 1990s, starting with the Virtual Fixtures system developed at the U.S. Air Force’s Armstrong Laboratory in 1992. Commercial AR experiences were first introduced in entertainment and gaming businesses. Subsequently, AR applications have spanned commercial industries such as education, communications, medicine, and entertainment.
Key Points
- AR is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated 3D content, overlaying digital information like images, videos and sounds onto it.
- An AR development platform is a software framework that provides the tools and resources necessary for creating AR applications and unlocking the potential of immersive reality technology.
- Some of the leading AR development platforms are Apple’s ARKit, Google’s ARCore, echo3D AR, Unity and Vuforia.
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