Do you recall the uproar that the game Pokemon Go caused? That was one of the earliest large-scale encounters with augmented reality technology in the history of the globe. Beyond the craziness of Pokemon Go, this demonstrated how we could engage with the internet of things in the near future.
Imagine being able to collect real-time information from your phone or glasses on everything you see in your house, on the street, or even in the grocery. This will be made feasible by the cloud storage of a dynamic 3D map of reality. To put it another way, the ultimate merging of the actual and virtual worlds.
Although there are augmented reality applications for mobile phones, including the well-known smart glasses that Google launched to mixed reviews, the promise of complete integration between the physical and virtual worlds is about to arrive, and many see it as the next great technological revolution.
It’s no accident that tech behemoths like Apple, Alphabet, and Amazon, among others, are putting in massive amounts of effort to be at the forefront of the next technological revolution.
What Is The Science Behind Augmented Reality?
The perception of a genuine physical environment through a technology instrument is known as augmented reality.
The augmented reality gadget augments a physical environment with virtual information. As a result, every tangible element gets fed by this knowledge, resulting in a real-time augmented or digital reality of objects.
It’s crucial to distinguish between augmented reality and virtual reality. They are distinct, but they work well together. Augmented reality technology works by overlaying a layer of virtual visual reality on top of an existing physical world.
Virtual reality, on the other hand, produces an entirely fictitious environment in which the user may fully immerse himself. This virtual experience does not include any contact with the physical world.
The Next Computing Revolution And The AR Cloud
You’ll have to become used to the phrase AR Cloud (Augmented Reality Cloud) in the future years if you haven’t already. The AR Cloud, according to technology gurus like Ray Kurzweil, will be the platform that will shift the augmented reality paradigm.
AR-based applications used to be tough to produce, distribute, and sell, but that all changed in 2017, when firms like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, ARCore, and ARStudio got interested in the technology’s potential.
A difficulty to solve: how can augmented reality be made to last? The AR Cloud is the answer.
All AR experiences must be persistent in terms of time, place, and device. This implies that when an AR experience is built in the real world, it must be consistent in terms of time and place. At each point in time, users should be able to perceive the same AR experience.
The AR Cloud is significant because it will be able to store and organize physical world data in order to communicate it in real-time and in a visual manner to any device. The augmented reality cloud will be a 3D replica of the real world.
The AR Cloud will be given data from the actual world in real-time (at its source) in order to analyze and show it using augmented reality technologies. This will allow AR experiences to be accessed and interacted with at any time, in any area, and in any situation.
What Role Would AR Play In Our Daily Lives?
The number of augmented reality applications that can be beneficial in our daily lives appears to be limitless. Imagine visiting a museum or an archaeological site and being able to instantly access all of the information exhibited by just scanning the exhibits with your augmented reality device.
You may also read a person’s background using augmented reality technology by simply gazing at them via your cellphone. Doctors might use augmented reality to rehearse operations and communicate with their patients’ clinical information, allowing them to better direct surgical procedures.
Consider walking around the supermarket while receiving real-time information about the items you see. This way, you’ll know right away what each product’s nutritional information is, when it expires, how good it is, and how much it costs compared to similar items.
Currently, mobile users account for more than half of all Internet queries. This circumstance emphasizes the necessity for technology that allows us to get information more quickly when we need it. From Googling to scanning the actual environment in real-time, the way we search the internet will alter radically.
The Difficulties Of Cloud-Based Augmented Reality
One of the most difficult aspects of using augmented reality technology is transitioning from a world where all knowledge is manually searched and collected as text (for example, while Google) to a new world where everything may be seen visually.
The AR Cloud faces a difficult problem in categorizing things in real-time, interpreting their features, and delivering that information quickly. As a result, the AR Cloud must possess three key characteristics:
- Shareable point with scalability cloud.
- Localizer that is always available.
- Multi-user interaction in real-time.
The Future Of Augmented Reality
As we can see, the next major technological revolution, dubbed AR Cloud, is on its way. What we need to consider is the ethics that will govern AR in order to preserve users’ privacy. The next phase of AR and AI integration in our life will put our capacity to maintain human contact and view the environment without technology filters to the test.