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Augmented reality may be 30 percent bigger every year

01/22/201401/20/2014 Julie Campbell

Research is showing that the AR technology market is experiencing a steady rapid growth. According to a recent study by TechSci Research, the augmented reality market in the United States is expected to grow by 30 percent every year from now until the close of 2018. This trend is the result of the growing familiarity among consumers with AR technology. The TechSci Research results also indicated that as time progresses, there will be a much greater push in augmented reality, which will drive the technology forward and will bring about…

Augmented reality presents growing opportunity for app companies

10/25/201310/22/2013 Jorge Gonzalez

These applications provide considerable opportunities in areas such as animations, videos, and 3d models. Retailers and other consumer focused businesses are placing an increasing focus on augmented reality, to be able to provide shoppers with an enhanced overall product and brand discovery and interaction experience. This has caused the makers of apps that use this technology to experience a tremendous sudden growth. Even the smallest augmented reality startups are finding that their business is doubling, tripling, or quadrupling throughout this year, due to the rising interest from large brands. This…

Augmented reality predictions for 2013

12/28/201212/28/2012 Stephanie Beck

Next year is expected to come with a number of exciting new developments in AR technology and use. Though augmented reality may still feel as though it is something that won’t happen until well into the future, it has already arrived in 2012, and by next year, it is expected to make an exciting splash. It is predicted that the technology will become much more mainstream in 2013, for a number of reason. Among the primary reasons that mobile commerce experts feel that augmented reality will be virtually everywhere next…

Augmented reality study predicts billions of app downloads by 2017

11/08/201211/08/2012 Julie Campbell

In 2013 alone, the study forecasts mcommerce revenue of $300 million from AR. A new report has been released to reveal the findings of a study about the use of augmented reality from now through 2017. What it revealed was that the technology is rapidly on the rise and that it has a great deal of potential. It predicted that by the year 2017, there will have been around 2.5 billion annual downloads of augmented reality applications on smartphones and tablets. Moreover, it also forecasted that it will generate revenue…

Augmented reality education in Canada

09/22/201209/22/2012 Sam Lambert

Augmented reality education gaining ground Augmented reality has gotten a lot of attention recently for its uses in gaming and entertainment. The technology is often used to provide consumers with engaging experiences that are meant to focus their interests around certain products or activities. Indeed, this is one of the major features of augmented reality that has proven attractive to technology companies like Google. Augmented reality has more practical uses, however, as exhibited by students at the Calgary Science School in Alberta, Canada. These students are drawing more attention to…