What Do You Mean By Augmented Reality Mobile Apps?
We all enjoyed the voice recognition feature in our smartphones like one Siri in iPhones
. Now, many of us would be thinking whats next. The next thing that will make your phone more interactive is augmented reality applications.
Mobile application development industry is nurturing one new class of mobile apps called augmented reality applications. Imagine you just have to pint your smartphones video camera towards a product and instantly get personalized, detailed information about the product on your devices screen display.
In a more generalized way just point your phone camera and it will tell what you are looking at by superimposing a text box over that product and also offers a way of getting other related information.
Where it can be useful?
Mobile application development is further classified into many genre sand platforms like iPhone app development, Android app development, Windows apps development and last but not the least Blackberry apps development. These platforms have marked applications for almost every type of business on earth.
But the concept of augmented reality apps can prove to deliver promising results in industries like:
- Retail
- Tourism
- Education
- Automobiles and many more
Lets take one example Retail Stores. An augmented reality mobile app can bring laurels to Retail business. Retailers can let users download the app once they are inside the store. Once the app is downloaded the user will make his/her profile and product preferences. The mobile application will be configured to work with stores inventory system fed by other sources such as nutritional facts from consumer packaged companies.
How these applications work?
In case of retail store, the shopper will point video cam towards products shelf, the app will recognizes the product via image processing technology and displays relevant information based on the input information provided by customer. The required information will be then superimposed over the products on screen using augmented reality technology.
Moreover the application can also offer discount coupons related to product. The technology system uses character recognition, image shapes and colors and shelf positioning of good other than Barcode and RIFD.
Where to get it?
You need to contact a mobile apps development company and discuss your need with them. You can either choose iPhone application development or Android app development or any other you feel will give you results.