Augmented Reality in Tourism: An Innovative Way to Attract Tourists

Augmented Reality in Tourism

With the release of powerful smartphone devices, and more recently Google’s project Glass, Augmented Reality (AR) quickly became the new buzz word. The technology allows combining seamlessly physical world and virtual information, but is still widely under-utilised in the field of Tourism. This report presents 10 highly innovative AR experiences that showcase the potential of the technology to ...

Augmented Reality (AR) in Urban Heritage Tourism

New technology has been seen as a way for many businesses in the tourism industry to stay competitive and enhance their marketing campaign in various ways. AR has evolved as the buzzword of modern information technology and is gaining increasing attention in the media as well as through a variety of use cases. This trend is highly fostered across mobile applications as well as the hype of weara...

Cleaning the Ganges in Varanasi to Attract Tourists

Industrial Augmented Reality - Innovative operator assistance in collaboration with Augmented Reality -

Plant operators are being forced to handle more advanced and complicated systems with fewer people because of the aging workforce problem. This problem has become a worldwide epidemic and has been inducing critical accidents caused by human errors. Yokogawa has been evaluating a series of Proof of Concepts (PoC) for new operator assistance systems. In particular, the concepts applying Augmented...

Augmented reality: a new way of seeing.

SEE-THROUGH DISPLAY of a city street is shown in this artist's rendition of an augmented-reality system that could be in use by the end of this decade. The display superimposes graphics and text from wireless networks (for example, a bus schedule and a movie preview) over the appropriate objects in the user's view (the bus stop and the movie theater).