Augmented Reality

 

People are extremely excited about augmented reality right now, especially since Apple enthusiastically supported the platform with the release of the iPhone X.  But what exactly does augmented reality, often known as AR, mean? And how does it vary from virtual and mixed reality?

While virtual reality immerses you totally in a computer-generated environment, augmented reality superimposes computer-generated graphics on top of the actual world. Pokémon Go, an AR game in which you seek for and catch the popular pocket monsters in the real world, has already become one of the most downloaded smartphone games of all time, proving the power of this mix of the real and the imagined.

Snapchat is another famous app that makes use of augmented reality? Instead of using the rear camera on a smartphone, it uses the front-facing camera to add augmented reality effects to your selfies. As a result, you may apply special effects that alter your look in real-time, and then share movies or photographs with the effects turned on to your friends (or adversaries).