What are the benefits of augmented reality?

Augmented Reality (AR) is a recent development technology that helps us create different interactions with the computer, in fact, the connection that is made by Augmented Reality is a combination of real life and the virtual or digital world.

Augmented Reality has different uses, such as driving, sports, interior design, etc. Users are the core of AR that can be fully transferred in virtual lands and do other actions through virtual worlds made in apps. Using AR technology needs Apps. Generally, AR and its apps have advantages and disadvantages. Some advantages are:

• Enhanced experience and interaction: With AR, you can enhance your normal experiences in life, because Augmented Reality uses different methods of sensory methods and auditory videos designed by technology.

• Accessible and usable: AR apps are designed for both android and ios systems, they have very usable interfaces, and users can use them very quickly. For example, to calculate a pizza calorie it is enough to take a picture of the pizza then AR’s app show details.

• Has improved learning and practicing: AR has various apps for education and practice with rich and understandable content. Also, teachers can communicate with their students online in virtual classrooms.

• Has sweetened Business Activities: AR apps are designed for different businesses to provide users with many useful features, and users can make better and more accurate choices based on these features. For instance, for buying or renting a home with AR before coming physically and putting time customers can have a virtual tour with details at home same as a physical tour.

• Having a wide variety of sports and entertainment programs: One of the main goals of AR is entertainment, so in the entertainment and exercise fields, AR apps have a wide variety. In some AR games, users can gather with each other and one of the AR ideas is to put people together in a social manner. With exercise apps, users can do exercises the same as they are in the gym.

What are the challenges of augmented reality?

• In addition to all the advantages of Augmented Reality, this technology also has some disadvantages.

• Costly: Augmented Reality is an expensive technology, and creating AR is unaffordable. The cost of some apps can be 100$, which is expensive for average users, and not all businesses can use AR in their development. Not average people can invest in AR technology; only certain organizations and groups of people have this feature.

• Privacy and Safety Problems: Unfortunately, diagnosing between real and not real in AR platforms isn’t easy, and attackers can trick users.  In addition in some AR systems, some real-time issues like user’s chatting can be captured by some attacker, and the user’s privacy is threatened.

• Adverse health effects: Some violent games are designed in AR spaces that influence users more than normal games, because in this platform people completely imagine themselves in the games. So this happening especially in the new generation can have adverse mental health effects and teenage people can imagine that violent actions in society are justifiable.

• Decreased level of concentration: Due to the different nature of Augmented Reality technology, its use is more attractive for users, and this causes them to become addicted to the continuous use of this technology. One of the disadvantages of addiction is decreased concentration level, which has terrible effects on different sides of the user’s life.

• Creating dangerous situations: Augmented Reality adds digital gen to the real world, So this happening hides some real-world signals from the eyes of the user. In this situation, users are not able to see and diagnose the environment correctly, and some accidents.

In addition to all the mentioned things, Augmented Reality has two other important advantages that cover almost all its disadvantages and makes the demand for using this technology increase every day.

Advantages of augmented reality in education

Schools, colleges, and academies, remote or physical classes are using AR as an assistant. Teachers can use glasses in class and ask students to wear them. Students in presentations can share knowledge and documents via AR. It is a handy tool for interacting with audiences in class, the room, and the viewers. It is the opportunity to attract students to interact with a teacher and complicated lessons.

Advantages of augmented reality in business

Augmented reality creates a unique and specific experience before buying a service or an object. Every customer can use the devices and examine them, and during the experience, engage to purchase or choose. It is a competitive differentiation and there are not many businesses that can outrun this feature. Any researcher audience will love this immersive difference.

Conclusion

In short, it can be said that Augmented Reality technology has provided innovations and conveniences for users’ lives, such as more accessible learning and interaction with more people. Still, in addition to all this, there are also destructive effects that, if they are not paid attention to during use, the damage they cause will be irreparable.

Generally, the future of AR is still being determined. Still, businesses and users depend on their goals and can use it and they must be certain how much Augmented Reality can be useful or risky for them.