December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
388 pages
8h 11m
English
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. ...