admin Augmented reality (AR) has long sounded like an untamed, ultramodern concept, but the technology has been around for years. AR is all about superimposing system-generated images on top of your view of reality, thus creating a composite view that augments the real world. It is a technology that has been incorporated into many different aspects of our lives, especially through our smartphones which is now enabled on over 500 million devices whereas in iOS App Store there are 2,000 and on Google Play other 200-plus apps are available.
Changing Dimension for Businesses
Augmented experiences are becoming more common for businesses. Industries like manufacturing, automobile, telecommunication and energy where the workforce tends to be scattered throughout remote areas, use of AR for communication and training increasing. With a few breakout hits, many are wondering what the innovative and extreme use case for AR will be. Let’s take a look at use cases of augmented reality in education and health industry.
Augumentation of AR in Healthcare
In the healthcare industry, the application of AR is opening up new opportunities and it is expected that by the year 2020 the global market will reach a value of $1.5B. Innovations in this new AR technology, can improve doctor’s ability to diagnose, treat, and perform surgery on their patients more precisely by giving them access to real-time data and patient information faster, and more accurately.
Additionally, healthcare and education companies continue to enforce mobile AR. Educators use AR to provide a more immersive experience for students and healthcare companies have developed AR tools for the operating room.
Telehealth is also a new way to monitor your patient’s health from a remote location with features like live video monitoring, geo-based pharmacy recommendations, simplified billing, and electronic health record integration.
There are several examples of AR in the healthcare sector like AccuVein which demonstrates a blood vessel map in real-time that helps doctors to avoid errors.
AR will be also used to improve the way surgeries are performed today. There are specific types of AR softwares and training simulators that helps the doctors to map all the movements needed for physical treatment straight to their patient’s body. AI technologies making a big revolution in several areas of healthcare, like the IBM Watson Care Manager help which enhances data management, improves drug discovery methods, and allow physicians to see data and other information in front of them without unfocusing themselves from the crucial task at hand.
Changing Educational Trends
Another advantage of implementing AR in education is that training can now be made more systematic. Through an AR training program, doctors in training can practice on anything and everything that may come up in a real-life medical situation rather than randomly training with what’s given in a dissection lab. Medical students have always based medicine on theory and proven evidence, and now AR technologies actually allow them to visualize and practice those theories during their training.
Taking into account the widespread use of mobile devices, augmented reality in education is becoming even more accessible as educational materials can be quite expensive, and not all schools and educational centers can afford to buy and maintain them whereas using AR for learning, students just need mobile devices and AR apps. AR also reduces costs on staff training sidestepping traditional seminars and classes with the help of AR headsets and applications.
Using augmented reality in the classroom can turn an ordinary class into an astonishing experience by providing virtual examples and adding game elements to support textbook materials. As a result, classes become more interactive. AR helps students better remember the information they have just learned.
In other words, this is one of the best ways an educator can use to engage and motivate students even with little or no programming skills. They can create an exciting world within the classroom just by using tools and applications specially designed to create AR content and activities.
AR Innovating Future Augmented Reality technology magnifies the physical world, it adds layers of digital information onto what we can see with the naked eye.This is paramount in order to promote 21st-century skills such as creativity, problem-solving, critical thinking, analysis, coding, and iterative testing, with augmentation of our surrounding by adding sound, video, and graphics. AR can also bring huge value to practicing medicine and education by allowing students and trainee physicians to better visualize health issues and scenarios that they one day will be treating. The benefits that AR can bring to businesses and society can be groundbreaking.
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