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Enterprise Augmented Reality Projects
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Enterprise Augmented Reality Projects

by Jorge R. López Benito, Enara Artetxe González
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
388 pages
8h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using AR for tourism

AR is mainly a visual technology. Although it can combine other effects such as sounds to make the experience more realistic or vibrations on the phone when we are playing a game, its main attraction is the visual content it displays over the real world. That makes this technology perfect for enhancing traveling experiences, from showing skyline information to making animals in a museum come to life or even translating signs and guides in real time. 

Back in the late 2000s/early 2010s, when smartphones started to become popular, some of the first AR apps that appeared were tourism-oriented. In 2010, for example, the Museum of London released an iPhone app that showed historical photos of the city over the real places. ...

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