Augmented Reality Technology: History, Application, Impact on Market & Future Recommendation Challenges

Abstract

Augmented Reality (AR) is currently in the process of creating permanent change to industrial development, production, and operational processes: from design development in the automotive sector, through to virtual representations of aircraft engines and investigating the effects of clashes during mechanical engineering, AR offers seemingly limitless possibilities. The advantages are obvious: processes can be made more efficient, designs optimized well in advance of development, and complex machines can be maintained more intelligently. AR technology is becoming increasingly diffuse, due to the ease of application development and the widespread use of hardware devices (mainly smartphones and tablets) able to support its adoption. Today, a growing number of applications based on AR solutions are being developed for industrial purposes. AR technology is proving highly flexible and is showing great potential in numerous areas (e.g., maintenance, training/learning, and assembly or product design) and in industrial sectors (e.g., the automotive, aircraft or manufacturing industries). It is expected that AR systems will become even more widespread in the near future. Companies are experiencing more and more pressure to increase productivity and quality while cutting costs in the digital era. The integration of innovative new technologies in the work process is crucial when transforming businesses to cope with these increasing requirements. In our paper we presented first the AR technology through time and then investigated the current integration of such an innovative technology in many important areas of application such as healthcare, education, Business, utility sector& public sector in general and how it can be applied theoretically for Lebanon. Through our paper also we will see the market impact and finally end up with conclusion and future recommendation.

Keywords: AR, Healthcare, Education, Utility Sector, Public Sector