Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including: visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory.Augmented reality (AR) incorporates three basic features a combination of real and virtual worlds, real-time interaction, and accurate 3D registration of virtual and real objects.

What Is Augmented Reality: All You Need To Know

AR has been widely used in the video games industry, most notably for Pokémon Go but Pikachu’s aside, there are many other uses for AR in our everyday lives. Some of which are:

Applications/ Use

Augmented reality  aids the progression of visual art in museums by allowing museum visitors to view artwork in galleries in a multidimensional way through their phone screens. This allows individuals to see hidden aspects and information about the paintings, and to be able to have an interactive technological experience with artwork as well.

Visual art

The gaming industry embraced AR technology. A number of games were developed for prepared indoor environments, such as AR air hockey, Titans of Space, collaborative combat against virtual enemies, and AR-enhanced pool table games.Augmented reality allowed video game players to experience digital game play in a real-world environment.

Video games

Perhaps the most important application of AR for most users will be in retail applications, notably “try before you buy.” With more people shopping from home and less emphasis on public retail spaces, AR will allow consumers to see how products will look in their own homes before purchasing them. This can take the guesswork out of the buying process. There are already a number of apps, such as Wayfair, Houzz, and Ikea which let you place furniture and other products in your own real-world environments.

Retail

Although Augmented reality and Virtual reality share similarities, they are not the same, AR is not a fully immersive experience like virtual reality (VR). While virtual reality requires users to don a special headset and pulls them into a completely digital world, AR lets them continue interacting with the physical world around them.

Differences with Virtual Reality

Using Phones and tablets are currently ARs most popular application but Research continues apace on including AR functionality in contact lenses, and other wearable devices. The ultimate goal of augmented reality is to create a convenient and natural immersion, so there’s a sense that phones and tablets will get replaced, though it isn’t clear what those replacements will be. Even glasses might take on a new form, as “smart glasses” are <a href="https://www.livescience.com/40844-smart-glasses-could-help-blind-people-navigate.html">developed for blind people</a>.

The future of augmented reality

This ideas provide a simple introduction that helps in understanding what augmented reality is and how it is applied to the real world.

Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including: visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory. Augmented reality (AR)  incorporates three basic features a combination of real and virtual worlds, real-time interaction, and accurate 3D registration of virtual and real objects.…

In the next ten years, especially with Facebook Meta, crypto, NFTs, and online-only content, AR & VR(augmented reality and virtual reality) will absolutely take the world by storm.We will begin to see it everywhere from education, to scientific applications, research, entertainment, navigation, more mundane applications like gestural task assistance, and all the way to complex abstractions of traditionally difficult tasks that require high degrees of domain-specific knowledge.

AR/VR: An Introduction

Augmented RealityIn AR, reality is overlaid with user interfaces, mixed with effects, modified, manipulated, and otherwise presented to the user as an augmented version of their normal reality.Virtual RealityBy contrast, in VR, reality is fully replaced by a virtual environment which can be setup however the product team likes, within the constraints of the platform that the application is running on.

Defining AR And VR

AR takes the feed from front-facing cameras, LIDAR (Light Detecting and Ranging), and other inputs, creates depth-maps, and uses constant field-watching to update the UI and feedback through the device. This environment co-exists with and is interdependent with the real world.VR takes the device viewport, hijacks it, and superimposes a 2D and 3D mixed environment that the user can interact with. This environment exists outside and independent of the real world.

The Workings Of AR/VR

AR/VR applications will be surface-less, multi-type input, and will allow for real-time shared experiences. Surface-less interactions:Understand right now that you’re more than likely used to designing for either a mouse and keyboard or touch-screen respectively, but in AR/VR you will have fully virtual, 3D interactions with no borders or surface.

UI And UX Designers: Surface Less Interactions!

We can assume that most interactions will be visual, track with eye movement, thumb controls, reach-depth, speech recognition, head-tilt gestures, and a whole lot more.The reason it’s so important to consider these additional types of input, is that they will fundamentally change the way that users interact with your product, and will come to expect your product to react in turn.

Multiple Input Types

You will need to account for real-time shared experiences between users. This is NOT a 1:1 design process anymore, it is one-to-many, and then many-to-many.This will constitute a HUGE shift in the way that applications are designed, because the state of your application for one user will change depending upon the state of your application across other users who are sharing the same experience.

Real-Time Shared Experiences

In order to start designing in AR/VR, we have to understand that we are no longer constrained to a particular device “size” but rather designing for the human eye itself.
This FOV (Field of View) exists between the human eye and the viewport surface.
This is key, because while your interactions are not confined strictly to the viewport’s size, your user’s ability to see them absolutely is.
Your user has a total field of view, but your design needs to fit reasonably within their comfortable cone of standard vision.

How to start designing for AR/VR

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<li>Zone 1: Great (central) view: Zone 1 is defined as the central-most view of the user, and is where you should put the most important and/or immediately necessary information.</li>
<li>Zone 2: Decent view: Zone 2 exists from the edge of the central view to about 10–15° degrees away from the eye’s central line of sight.</li>
<li>Zone 3: Rough view: Zone 3 exists from the edge of the decent view to about another 10–15° away radially. </li>
<li>Zone 4: Nope: Finally, we have Zone 4 which is a no-go, or as I like to call it, the Nope Zone.</li>
</ul>

The Viewing Zones

Understanding augmented reality, virtual reality, and designing for AR/VR experiences.

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🏥 Paralysis is one of the most dangerous illnesses that can strike a person, yet there is no complete treatment for paralysis.

Virtual Reality Saving Lives

👓 According to a recent study by researchers at _Duke university,Virtual Reality combined with brain-machine interfaces might enable paralyzed people to regain mobility.

💡 In short, VR physical therapy may help patients regain their ability to walk.

🧠 Brain-machine interface helps patients to control devices with their minds. VR helps them to see these brain-controlled motions and gain mind-body awareness.

✅ In their tests, the team found out that VR was effective in restoring some muscle control and feelings in patients.

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Platforms like immersive video games, 3D movies and virtual environments have used VR(virtual reality) for years, but this technology could soon be utilized to inspect crime scenes, helping jurors make more informed decisions during court trials.
New experiments show that creating a mock crime scene in a virtual setting preserves the location-based information for the viewers, leading to more consistent verdicts.

Virtual Reality For Real Crime Scenes

<ul><li>Jurors often visit the crime scene, costing thousands of dollars and a lot of wasted time.</li><li>Virtual visits using VR reduces the cost and the time taken for the final verdict.</li><li>Viewers can teleport to the location instantly and even freely roam around the area looking for evidence.</li><li>Laser-scanning cameras that capture the crime scene digitise everything for the jurors to analyse.</li><li>Forensics, jury and the entire legal department stands to gain a lot with this new implementation of technology.</li></ul>

Teleporting And Free-Roaming The Virtual Scene

Australian researchers are investigating whether virtual reality can help jurors make decisions at trial, allowing them to explore crime scenes.

Jurors could use VR to visit crime scenes, and help them reach a verdict

Time compression the phenomenon where time goes by quickly when we&#39;re immersed in something that we&#39;re doing.
This usually happens to people who play video games or movie bingers.

Time Compression

Time Management

Virtual Reality gamers or users experience amplified time compression due to the lack of bodily awareness.
Studies have been done and proved that virtual reality indeed warps one&#39;s perception of time due to being totally immersed in VR and that the environment VR gives is one that prevents a person&#39;s awareness.

Time Compression and Virtual Reality

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<li>VR users unintentionally spend an excessive amount of time in games because VR headsets are becoming more comfortable for long-session usages.</li>
<li>It entails a risk of addiction that is associated with depression and insomnia, thus reducing their ability to tend to their mood and health.</li>
<li>Clocks must always be easily accessible and appear automatically at regular intervals.</li>
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Research Involving Time Compression and Virtual Reality

There are studies that involve the use of VR for patients undergoing therapy who claim to experience time compression effects.
Another study suggests that using VR during sessions as such is a surprisingly effective painkiller due to the power of distraction.
As technology evolves, we hope to see more advancement in this area.

Virtual Reality for Medicine

Ever lose track of time while doing something? It gets worse with a VR headset on. ​

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What Is Augmented Reality: All You Need To Know

What Is Augmented Reality: All You Need To Know

AR/VR: An Introduction

UI/UX: Designing for AR & VR

Virtual Reality Saving Lives

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