Virtual and augmented reality has remained a buzzword for technology fans and it’s on everyone’s radar for the upcoming year as well. Mobile devices are the wave of the future and to connect with users, more and more businesses and industries alike are turning to VR and AR and hoping to use their potential. App development has begun taking a turn for better, and more creative ways to both use and integrate VR and AR.
Augmented reality app development has already begun proving it’s worth the cost and effort. It has begun to profoundly impact real estate, education and gaming.
Real Estate
Real estate is typically a difficult market, with clients taking a long time to buy or even rent. Although commissions are significant, real estate professionals don’t like to wait and are hoping to use every tool available to move the sale cycle along. Augmented reality on a realtor’s site can provide information that hasn’t been seen before prior to a home walk-through. App developers can create presentations that bring the client into the home and offer views that even human eyes are not accustomed to seeing, such as the layout from above, the location in a development or the height of a building against landscaping. With all this foreknowledge, a buyer is able to make a split second decision once viewing the actual space.
Education
Education is going to become even more enjoyable for children, for some of the more visual or challenged ones, for the first time. App development has already taken steps to bring the digital world onto the paper one and give physical objects the three d or multiple views useful for comprehension. While children have always learned from paper, video and blackboard, now they can almost engage with the subject. AR can produce movable objects to explain action or explore spaces that require a more rounded, extensive or three d view. Think animals in motion, deep water or cave experiences and the ability to see inside the body.
Gaming
Gaming has always been relegated to the happy nerd set but in recent years, particularly after the Pokemon explosion, it’s moved mainstream. It’s still gathering momentum and with top augmented reality application development companies long offering this service, even consumers are making their own games. Gaming is meant to be an immersive entertainment experience. Game developers know that the more they can draw a user’s attention into the game, the better chance of it selling. AR and VR often combine in games and are useful for putting first person views in better perspective. It’s a powerful way for entertainment to be an all inclusive experience and gamers are already geared towards searching these out.
Add to that the unique development of gaming as a sporting event and AR becomes even more necessary. In these events, elite gamers compete with an audience, found online. AR tech is necessary for simple overlays of sports stats and more complex interaction with the competition and with others. It’s considered a social venue and viewers can communicate and interact with one another all through apps developed to host and enhance the competition.
These arenas: real estate, education and gaming, are only a few of the potentially explosive use of AR but they are only the beginning. AR and VR is hyped to be the next wave of necessary tech, not replacing the ubiquitous mobile, but now made necessary because of it.
