Augmented Reality – An Excellent Digital Conversion Technique

Augmented reality is perhaps the only technique of its kind that can augment reality of physical surrounding to its virtual equivalent. But it is not the technology’s ability alone to digitally convert physical reality, but also giving you information superimposed over the digitally converted imagery.

As a matter of fact, when you use your mobile phone’s camera to capture imagery of a building or anything you want info from, the AR app installed in your phone processes the captured imagery, thus giving you digital output of the imagery with related information superimposed. No doubt, the processed imagery looks different from its derivative source.

Now that it has been made clear that augmented reality converts non-virtual thing into its virtual equivalent, let us study about the apps which make this digital conversion possible.

There is no dearth of augmented reality applications. While most apps have yet to be brought into the mainstream, or better say they are in their nascence state, few of the apps including Alive are catching up fast among app enthusiasts in India.Developed by leading augmented reality company, Adstuck, Alive app is quite a very innovative application dedicated to awesome digital conversion of physical reality like contents over newspaper. This time the application is leveraged by India’s print media giant, the Times of India.

If your mobile phone has Alive installed, you can view stationary imagery on the newspaper in its virtual reality just by pointing your phone’s camera at it for seconds. Very soon you have live scene of the imagery on your phone’s screen. That’s the magic of the software application. Moreover, it’s freeware as well.

Just like Alive, there are a lot of augmented reality applications which one can find at website of different related companies in the world. Take Adstuck for an instance, you visit at its website and experience availability of many related apps with their information about features and ways how to download.

The main troubling issue with augmented reality technology today is the less than required popularity. Means, it is still to extend its reach to the mass community of people on global front to become a recognized technology. However, it doesn’t mean to say that AR technology has no future because it is not very popular. Experts believe that it is going to be the technology of future in next coming days when it would be possible to capture imagery using hand instead of phones. Meanwhile, many sci-fi movies including Minority Report, Iron Man and Total Recall have already maximized the use of the technology.