Development of Future Technology Essay

We have been asked to create an essay and presentation of a future technology that has recently or will soon take root in our society. I choose the subject of 'Augmented Reality', if you don't know augmented reality is when digital assets are brought into the normal world. It can be seen as the opposite of Virtual Reality (VR immerses you into a digital world). This is a gathering of my findings so far.

I have some examples of AR in real-life casual use. Some of these for small scale use include mostly small app games on mobile devices like Pokemon Go and AR Tower Defense.

Some of the few products that have gained recognition is the IKEA AR catalogue (it allows you to try furniture in your home with digital assets beginning placed through the screen into your room) ; information from the Digital Marketing Academy shows that within a few months it had 8.5 million downloads.The American Apparel Colour-Changing App (allows you to change the colour of clothes to see what would suit you) and Shisedio Makeup Mirror (allows you to est make up on yourself to see how it would look).

For more large scale devices there are, the Microsoft Holo Lens, the Vuzix M-100 and the Atheer One. All of these Headset products are used either for real-life convenience (such as finding highlighted locations) or for adding more interaction for certain systems. 

Other fields that have expressed interest in this technology are medical science and architecture. More information will come along as I find new information.