{"id":264283,"date":"2010-02-02T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=55855"},"modified":"2010-02-02T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T14:30:27","slug":"is-real-world-fragmentation-holding-back-augmented-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/264283","title":{"rendered":"Is Real-world Fragmentation Holding Back Augmented Reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Although I find Augmented Reality (AR) interesting, it’s not something I use on a daily basis. The concept actually reminds me of Twitter in its early stages — an occasional fun distraction at first, but the practical uses of it as a tool took time to develop. Today, I use Twitter daily for many purposes, so if my thought trend applies to AR, it could be that I use it, too, on a future daily basis. For now, it’s simply not as\u00a0ubiquitous\u00a0a platform as Twitter is and it appears to me that different players in this space are trying to create their own leading AR platform.<\/p>\n

Over at GigaOM, we’re sharing a visual representation of eight such platforms<\/a>, which exemplifies this fragmentation, but also shows the promise of AR on a mobile device. Each of the four screens tackles a different potential usage area for AR: Navigation, Location Overlay, Geo-Informational Services and Gaming. And in each area, you’ll see that there are two providers — I’m sure additional services exist in each category, as well.<\/p>\n

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