AR for education is emerging along with AR for marketing and social purposes due to the availability of portable devices with cameras and wireless technology.
Its impact in other areas such as engineering and design cannot be underestimated particularly considering it potential symbiotic relationship with computer aided design (CAD).
The installation of AR on smart phones has increased dramatically from 8 million in 2009 to more than 100 million in 2010.
The Mobile AR has grown dramatically as forecasted by Juniper Research to reach US$1.5 Billion by 2015.
The potential of AR support for education purposes and a host of the applications are guaranteed.
AR can function now by voice recognition, gesture recognition, paper-based marker, global positioning systems (GPS), 2D and 3D recognition.
It is going to be pervasive and knowledge in this dimension of technology is growing extensively.
AR for example is mentioned prominently and with increasing occurrence on social networking platforms such as Twitter.