5G Helps AR Sparkle

I can’t say enough about 5G. In fact, my comments on 5G are stirring people to ask me questions about it on social media, and that’s great. That means people are reading, people are doing their homework, and people are making the investments in the future of digital transformation.

The next step into this digital wild ride is augmented reality. AR, as it is otherwise known augmented reality, enables virtual objects or information to appear in the real world. If a technician is using AR to fix a machine, animated graphics and/or text instructions could be overlaid onto the real-life machine or machine part.

VR (virtual reality), on the other hand, is generally more immersive in that it lets you step into a virtual world. Each of these technologies is game-changing. For the purpose of this column, I can just say, let our mind’s eye imagine a world of sports viewing, video gaming, and other entertainment—where we are viewing movies and our favorite shows—might seem so unimaginable thanks to AR and VR.

With the help of virtual reality, we will be able to “be” in different places, experiencing things that are going on elsewhere—whether that’s an art gallery at the Louvre or a political rally in Washington D.C.  One sector that will definitely change is education.

When I was in school, we used what were known as Encyclopedia’s to look at pictures to learn about history, geography, and other cultures. Kids today go online to search the World Wide Web. They have Google and YouTube and all kinds of tools at their fingertips with the help of the internet and internet-connected devices.

A couple of generations down the road may have access to virtual reality and augmented reality applications to help them “see,” “hear,” and learn about new things in a very immersive way.

There is a lot of potential for AR and VR in the enterprise realm.

To read more, visit https://connectedworld.com/an-enterprise-case-for-ar-vr/