When one hears the word Augmented Reality (AR), it sounds like a wild futuristic concept. But this technology is now being widely used in many applications making our life comfortable.
So, what is AR? It involves the superimposition of computer-generated images on what one visualises in reality. This helps create a composite view that augments the real world with the virtual world.
Not only everyday apps and online tools, but even the massive online gaming industry has also leveraged the AR technology to revamp user experience for players. For example, gaming enthusiasts can enjoy the best casino games in India, while experiencing the look and feel of playing in a casino in Las Vegas or Macau.
Choosing the best apps and games is not easy, considering the growing popularity of the AR technology across different industry segments. However, below are some of the top picks for the best AR apps on iOS and Android platforms:
Google Translate
Recognised by masses as the best translation app, Google Translator supports a ton of various languages. A user can translate virtually any of the languages and onverse with other people simultaneously in real-time, too.
Using this AR app, the user must point the mobile camera at a text from another language, and the Google Translator app translates it into another language in real time. This can help you to accomplish various day-to-day tasks when you are confronted with a language barrier. For example, users can read street signs, hotel menus, etc. This app is super handy, and a lot of people install for their daily chores.
Google Lens
Here is another AR app to help you identify the real-world objects with the use of your mobile camera. You can now have more information about plants, animals, landmarks, various products, and many more. An Android technology app, Google Lens lets you search what you see, and allows you to get things done faster, and simultaneously helps you to better understand the world around you, just by using your mobile camera or a photo.
When the user directs the phone’s camera at an object, Google Lens will automatically identify the object and will show you the relevant search results. For example, when you will point the camera of the device at a Wi-Fi label with a network name, the app will automatically connect to the Wi-Fi source that has been scanned.
Doodle Lens
The power of Augmented Reality can now turn your flat sketch pads into interactive, animated AR characters and stories. You draw something on paper and take a photo of the drawing with this app. It would turn the scribbles into AR stickers and even will provide you frame by frame animator with some light editing features and effects.
The app also lets you save your drawings so that you can remake an AR sticker later, as and when required.
Pokemon Go
With the use of AR+ mode and enhanced AR settings, Pokemon Go gives the impression that Pokemons are a physical part of the real-world surroundings. Thus, players feel as if they are capturing images of a Pokemon in the real world. This new addition in the gaming world may require more skill and awareness of the surroundings. Many players like this version with AR technology and improved graphics.
Jurassic World Alive
Another Android application game, where a player has to perform two jobs simultaneously – they have to hunt and look for dinosaurs using a GPS-driven map of their vicinity. There is a drone which can be used to shoot the subjects with darts. This way, they can collect their DNA. Once a player has enough DNA, they can create new species of dinosaurs in their lab.
The game also has a battle mode, enabling players to compete with other players to earn prizes and win trophies. The game utilizes the Google Maps API that is used to build location-based games with the help of Google Maps data.
Facebook
Facebook offers lots of promises when we talk about AR and VR technologies. When using Facebook stories, users can use various AR filters to use an image enhancement technique, improving overall picture quality. Some of the AR effects even include the camera effects development platform for enhancing the quality of an image.
AR and VR technology in Mobile Casinos
It is time to forget all that we know about online casinos. The gaming industry is going through a massive transformation with increase in use of virtual reality (VR) technology. Online casinos are providing more immersive and interactive experiences to their players to make gaming a real fun.
By virtue of tremendous advancements in AR and VR software and hardware, online casinos ditch pseudo-3D interfaces and take the player right onto the casino floor. With the VR headsets, the gamblers can enjoy a lifelike,