AUGMENTED REALITY: THE FUTURE AHEAD

Augmented reality is aground breaking technology which hassled to a new way of experiencing things and interacting with the real world. The field of Augmented Reality (AR) has existed for just over one decade, but the growth and progress in the past few years have been notable. Augmented reality, in which virtual content is seamlessly combined with displays of real-world scenes by using Scene Analysis, is a growing area of interactive design. With the escalation of personal mobile devices that are capable of producing interesting augmented reality environment, the vast potential of AR has begun to be explored. This paper surveys the current state-of-the-art in augmented reality. It describes work performed in different application domains and describes the existing issues encountered when building augmented reality applications considering the technical limitations of mobile devices. Moreover, we discuss the future direction and areas requiring further research.