3. APPLICATIONS OF AR
Augmented Reality enhances a user’s perception of and interaction
with the real world. The virtual objects display information
that the user cannot directly detect with his own
senses. The information conveyed by the virtual objects helps
a user perform real-world tasks. AR is a specific example of
what Fred Brooks called Intelligence Amplification (IA): using
the computer as a tool to make a task easier for a human
to perform [18].
At the time of writing this paper, at least 12 distinct
classes of AR application domains have been identified.
These classes include well-established domains like medical,
military, manufacturing, entertainment, visualization, and
robotics. They also include original and new domains such as
education, marketing, geospatial, navigation and path planning,
tourism, urban planning and civil engineering. The following
sub-sections describe recent research project that have
been done in each field. While these do not exhaustively cover
every application domain of AR technology, they do cover the
areas explored so far.