AR for GIS is changing how we view and interact with the world around us. From visualizing underground utilities to performing sophisticated measurements of distances or angles. Augmented reality apps recognize patterns in video, diagrams, or bar codes to link to content, services, or products available for purchase.
Augmented Reality Today
- If you’ve ever watched a football game on TV and spotted that yellow first down line, you’ve experienced augmented reality in action.
- Modern day jet pilots benefit from augmented reality via a HUD, a heads-up display, which provides critical information such as air speed and angles.
- Pokemon Go has pushed augmented reality into the public eye, allowing players to capture virtual creatures in the real world.
- Car manufacturers are also beginning to experiment with augmented reality applications to improve driver safety.
AR for GIS
“Imagine that you could point the camera on your phone at the ground and see the location and orientation of water pipes and electric cables buried under the ground because your AR app is cross-referencing the GIS system with your location and giving you a kind of x-ray vision so that you can visualize the infrastructure that is underneath you.” – Mansour Raad, Esri Senior Software Architect
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