Augmented Reality Examples | Latest AR Examples

Read about the latest Augmented Reality application examples in almost every industry – health, education, retail and eCommerce, gaming, and more:

Augmented reality is being applied in almost every industry–health, education, retail and e-commerce, gaming and entertainment, finance, and manufacturing.

This augmented reality examples tutorial will show you some real-world examples of where and how AR is being applied.

Augmented Reality Examples Across Different Sectors

Among the many applications, AR and VR are aiding remote patient diagnosis and doctor training during coronavirus pandemic. AR and virtual reality examples show that these technologies can help in continued production on factory floors, learning, and business, all with reduced contact without having a halt on the economies.

Suggested reading => Top 10 Augmented Reality Apps

In the below example, AR aids diagnosis, surgery, and training in medicine:

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#1) Design And Construction Industry

With AR, you can design better with minimal errors in architecture and also get the feel of the finished product before it is done. Best augmented reality examples are also in home remodeling and trying multiple home products virtually before buying.

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IKEA Place Lowe and Delux Visualizer – This app helps to remodel your rooms and visualize home products right at the store without having to buy them first.

Website: IKEA

Benefits:

Customers can visualize how furniture, bed and mattresses, bathroom products, kitchen appliances, cookware, tableware, home electronics, home products, and home improvement and remodeling products will fit the target spaces at home.

• A virtual tape measure allows measuring of spaces to place 3D images of the products.
• Built with ARCore. Works for Android and iOS apps.
• While visualizing, a customer can move and fit the product around the house virtually to see which room and place are fit. You can also match the virtual yet-to-be-bought product with others you already have at home by comparing sizes, shapes, colors, etc. You can also point the camera to any product at home, and the app will suggest other similar products to buy from the store.

Delux Visualizer: You can try painting shades at home, school, or business premises with this app.

• Try any paint shades before buying.
• Scan the room and paint it virtually, and see how it will look in real life.

Other augmented reality examples in this category include,

1. Magicplan app which lets you create, scan, view, and edit actual floor plans in 3D to furnish them. It is useful for architects, interior designers, furniture retailers, real estate agents, and people interested in DIY.
2. Astralink, Dalux Viewer, AR Sketchwalk, ARKit tablet, and mobile apps allow construction workers to visualize how buildings will look on completion before they are on the planned location. This is done by pointing the app camera on the location and fitting in the house model and plan. Show clients what you intend to build for them. Other apps include the RealAR app and Gamma AR. Plan and manage assets, contracts, and do maintenance and repair work easily with fewer errors.
3. DAQRI Smart Helmet: Compare original designs with real buildings and projects. This is done by overlaying the building designs and plans on top of real buildings and projects.
4. Use the Fologram app together with the HoloLens and other AR smart glasses to convert 3D models of plans into full-size construction instructions that are superimposed on the workspace in order to complete the construction of complex projects.

#2) Manufacturing

In the Manufacturing sector, the AR example includes virtual and remote maintenance and repairs on factory production floors.

Below image is an example of WorkLink remote AR maintenance and repairs:

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WorkLink by ScopeAR: Do remote installations, repairs, and maintenance guided by experts without having the experts traveling to the location. This is achieved by overlaying instructions or models or other on real places where you want to do the repairs, maintenance, or installations.

Website: Scopear

Benefits:

• Deliver remote AR-based work instructions, repairs and maintenance, a collaboration between engineers and factory workers, and training.

WorkLink, an Android and iOS app, maps or overlays work instruction, repair manuals and steps, and annotations directly on the equipment or object that needs to be repaired.

Examples of augmented reality scenarios with this app are as follows:

• An engineer and a factory worker/technician at the production floor can remotely collaborate to carry out even complicated repairs and maintenance tasks without having the engineer travel to location.
• Live annotations allow highlighting of places to be repaired or attended in real-time.
• Trainers can be guided about equipment etc. Option available for video, chat, and phone calls, etc.
• It collects data such as session time, time per step, GPS location, etc.
• No knowledge of coding is required to author AR manuals and guidance to use later.
• Works with HoloLens AR headset.

Other examples in this category include,

1. DAQRI Worksense App – It works with DAQRI Smart Glasses: This app is used to relay the user’s field of vision in real-time so they can capture, observe, annotate or guide the real-world view with digital tools and instructions. Users can develop custom apps using the Visual Operating System provided by DAQRI.

#3) Education

AR let students learn in action, connect with teachers remotely. They can learn virtually using geo-location sensitive content. As will render the following augmented reality in education examples, this comes with benefits of the feeling of presence due to virtual immersion, improved participation with improved interaction with content, and gamifying of learning.

Learning in CoSpaces Edu:

CoSpaces Edu: Create and discover immersive AR and VR content as a student on a school project or teacher who wants to teach anything.

Like other augmented reality in education examples, it makes learning easy and with positive pedagogical benefits proven by research.

Website: CoSpaces

Benefits:

• Use the Merge Cube to merge 3D objects and project them on your hands to feel. Project them in your environments.

Other examples of AR in this category include,

1. Elements 4D: Students can see and combine the 36 Chemistry elements interacting in 3D and understand how they react. This is achieved by aiming the app camera at wood or paper. This augmented reality in education examples means AR can make teaching a game, and it boosts memory.
2. Google Expeditions: Uses both VR and AR to let students discover places they can tour to learn. They can learn history, geography, and other subjects, and immerse themselves in those adventures to get the feeling of presence. It is probably one of the most cited augmented reality in education examples.
3. Human Anatomy Atlas: Using life-size 3D holograms, high school, and university students and those pursuing medical courses, can learn human body anatomy.
4. Math alive: Students of PreK-3 can learn to count and basic numerical skills on their phones by placing a trigger card under a camera. It features skill-based learning, teacher lesson plans, and uses a full-year supplementary math curriculum. Including Kindergarten pupils, the app now incorporates adventure learning by taking them to zoos.
5. Design Painting with AR apps: Schools and students can engage in competitions and learn from teachers and each other to paint better. Paint on top of your spaces and share pictures for fun or school projects. It also includes drawing, painting colors, and adding GIFs, with apps like Surreal AR, Superpaint, World Brush, Lightspace, Bemo, and Giphy World.

#4) Health Care

AR aids in the remote training of medical professionals by overlaying guidance and instructions on holograms. AR also aids in learning body anatomy. Remote surgical procedures especially in training and in medical education in universities can be done remotely in AR by overlaying instructions and images over real bodies or holograms to gain an in-depth understanding of anatomy.

AR helps in remote patient monitoring and diagnosis. Medical Realities is being applied in Universities and hospitals for training and diagnosis as shown in below image:

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Medical Realities: Doctors can use Google Glass to perform surgery. Founder Shafi Ahmed has done so for about 14,000 students live in 32 countries.

Website: Medical Realities

Benefits:

• It allows medical training through VR and AR, where medical procedures can be viewed on Oculus Rift and other devices.
• It can help remote expert surgeons to guide other surgeons or trainees who are in a different location.
• Reconstructive surgery on patients who suffer severe injuries–surgeons and doctors from Imperial College and St. Mary’s Hospital are using Microsoft HoloLens for this purpose.

Other examples in this category include,

1. Vipaar: It uses AR to let surgeons remotely project their hands into the display of the surgeon at the surgery site who is wearing an AR headset, to guide the surgeon at the site on the surgery procedures.
2. Proximie also allows surgeons to virtually assist another surgeon at the site.
3. Medisights Tech: Uses AR to provide surgeons with x-ray views of acute 3D reconstructions of tumors in real-time. This means that no one has to be exposed to radiation. Also tested for other pathologies such as endocrine, skin, head, neck, and tract.
4. HoloAnatomy App: This is an app on the Microsoft HoloLens store, which lets app users see the 3D human body via a dynamic holographic model using the Microsoft HoloLens AR headset, which could be used in anatomy training and medicine.
5. EchoPixel: This app uses imaging technologies to provide a True 3D of human body anatomy to radiologists, cardiologists, pediatric cardiologists, and interventional neuroradiologist can see real body anatomy of patients and plan for surgery, train other medical professionals, or plan general diagnostics.
6. Augmedix: This company wants to use Google Glass to reduce administration processes in patient diagnosis. With the AR headsets, doctors and physicians will be able to see real-time medical notes as patients visit them, hence no need to look into a computer.

#5) Marketing, Branding, And Advertisement

Brands are using AR to teach customers about using their equipment and products and to experience their products before purchasing. AR ad experiences are here with us.

LG Visualization tool:

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LG’s AR Visualization tool is used by reps to take pictures of products placed using AR in different locations such as the floor, wall, and a table. The reps can send pictures to customers.

Website:  LG H&A AR

Benefits:

• The mobile sales tool allows sales reps to demo products with a look, feel, and fit in any space.
• Reps can place products in customer environments.

Other examples of Augmented Reality in this category include,

1. Jeld-Wen produced a showroom to showcase their products including residential and commercial windows, entrances, and doorways, in AR. Customers could, in AR, change the design, style, color of different windows and door solutions to have a look and feel of the customized products, and then send them to the sales department via email.
2. Chevron uses an AR app called Bumper to Bumper for branding while teaching people the long-term effects of moving a car and engine parts and how anti-wear and anti-friction products from the company can help.
3. Cummins’ AR vehicle tour allows users to use tablets to layer information on and around a truck to learn more about it. The app may allow DIY troubleshooting and repairs since it shows 3D models of working parts, stats, and specialized branding messages.
4. The Mazda AR pit crew experience took viewers in a race in which the Mazda race team competed in a WeatherTech SportsCar Championship series around the United States. Standing next to a giant LED screen, users would see their images in a virtual world in AR surrounded by a full pit crew. Fans would then use images on the LED screen to do a tire change, and they would be emailed a YouTube video of their experience.
5. Intel and Next/Now built an augmented reality face painting app for Bonnaroo 2016, to demonstrate Intel’s commitment to sourcing conflict-free minerals for their microprocessors. Built with Intel’s RealSense tech, the app could scan the user’s face at 74-points, then the user can select from among digital face paint designs overlaid on their face, and share pictures on social media.

#6) Adventure, Travel, Tourism

AR is being used to help people, including students, to find geo-location-based tour destinations and excavations they can learn geography and history about. It can just be for fun to ordinary tourists and travelers. More details about the locations, their features and other details such as of artifacts in a museum overlaid on the artifacts in a museum to help people learn more about them.

ViewRanger lets you explore routes in the real world and get directions as you hike, bike, and walk:

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ViewRanger trail map overlays data and navigation onto trails in different countries. This is done by the user pointing their phone app camera on the places like mountain ranges and the app will display trail names, etc.

Website: ViewRanger

Benefits:

• It is also used for bike rides, backpacking trips, ski holidays, or outdoor adventures. Virtual arrows on the app give guides in the real-world as you travel the routes.
• Plan your routes and adventures with ease and share interests with friends. Visit the routes and places offline. Explore tour destinations virtually.
• It works with Android, iOS, Apple Watch, Wear OS, and the web.

Other AR examples in this category include,

1. The AR[T] Walk by Apple allows users to tour museums in different destinations by identifying the museums in your surroundings by scanning the surroundings and then transporting you to the destination to have a virtual look and feel of the museum and what it hosts in. Learn details of artifacts in museums by pointing your phone camera at them.
2. Universal Studios Orlando allows visitors in parks to engage directly in AR, with dinosaurs of the Jurassic Park franchise. Park visitors trigger an AR display on overhanging screens by standing on a Holywood star, dinosaurs appear on the screen.
3. HoloMaps are your 3D maps of over 200 cities around the world, in your pocket, which when launched overlays real-time data in a solo or shared experience. Lonely Planet AR app, Wikitude browser, which is powered by Wikipedia, and AR flyover mode on the Apple Maps, also works in a similar way.
4. HUDWay AR heads up map displayer displays a translucent display on your dashboard as you drive. Some apps such as speedometers integrate with the displayer to allow drivers and riders to display speed on navigation.
5. Vortex Planetarium allows you to explore stars, constellations, planets, and other objects in space in AR simply by pointing your smartphone’s camera on the stars. You can also get alert about upcoming meteor showers, moon phases, and celestial events.

#7) Sporting And Sporting Fantasy

AR enables fans to measure, in real-time, the speed, trajectory, spin rate, and travel distance of the digital golf ball on the field. Football fans can get details and stats of players by pointing their app cameras on the field. Fans of fantasy sports can compete with league members at their locations. In broadcasting and team management, AR is employed in sports and game analyzes.

In the below image AR aids team analysis in broadcasting and team management:

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AR Sport app combines AR technology with fantasy sports by incorporating geo-location-based features for more immersion of the players inside the games.

Website: AR Sports

Benefits:

• You are placed in the fantasy sporting scene in the game to interact with other players and compete with them. It allows players to compete with league members to draft players in their location circles (thanks to camera technology).
• Basically, it places the player inside the fantasy sport and to play with other players with geo-location interests.
• Interactive advertisement – advertisers can quantify views, interactions, and redemption of advertising promotions.
• It can be incorporated into any host of fantasy sports.

Other examples of AR in this field include,

1. An app-enabled smart soccer ball by DrippleUp connects to the iOS and Android app via an AR marker on the ball and an adjustable tripod-stand. The AR system then tracks your practicing movements and provides an assessment of your work.
2. Google Glass, in American football, can provide real-data information about the ball speed, time of the match, and player’s positions.
3. Nike’s AR golfing glasses help to visualize real golf course and to measure speed, trajectory, spin rate, and a travel distance of the digital golf ball on the field. The ball and the glasses connect wirelessly.
4. Supponor Virtual Hybrid LED digiboard uses AR to help organizers replace on the ground advertisement with custom ads during the time when the match is being televised live.
5. BlendAR helps fans to browse real stats of players besides having a comprehensive view of the field.
6. MLB at Bat AR app was used in 2017 to see player stats in real-time by pointing the phone camera to the field.

#8) Beauty And Makeups

AR is being applied to improve makeup outcomes by having clients try products to the best match.

In the below image, Modiface AR SDK allows trying out of beauty products for different brands:

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ModiFace: Uses AR to let users try beauty products and make-ups on their faces.

Website: ModiFace

Benefits:

• With ModiFace mobile app, partner sellers of makeup and beauty products can have their clients trying their products virtually at home in AR, and if they like it, they can buy. One such partner working with ModiFace in this manner is Sephora.
• It applies facial recognition and so a user will need to only point the phone’s camera in front of their face and then try out photorealistic makeups, different hair colors, and more.
• Over 70 of the top global beauty brands are using this technology, which delivers validated skin assessment and simulation, photo-realistic makeup simulation with dynamic lighting adaptation, and simulation of photorealistic hair color and style.
• ModiFace also provides web-based AR product previews for brands.

#9) Fitness Industry

Use AR to improve training by getting exact details about your speed, power, and time-taken, or that of your equipment.

Solos Heads-up Display goggles:

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Solos smart glasses: These smart goggles, alongside the GPS app installed on them, provide a heads-up display navigation guide to cyclists as they ride, and they also get visual and audio cues.

Website: Solos-wearables

Benefits:

• Cyclists also get performance metrics or data to make their cycling better. You get to choose from the app elevation, time, heart rate, power, distance, etc, plus targets for each and these will scroll throughout on the goggles as you ride.
• It is compatible with smartphones

Other apps in this category include,

1. Strava: Generates a map of your path as you do runs, cycle rides, and hikes, all while reviewing data about your physical activity, which is overlaid on the path. You get to also explore where you have been and where you want to go next. Take a journey through different terrains, and also screenshot and share your progress with friends.
2. Everysight Raptor: Get real-time metrics about distance covered, time, power, cadence, speed, etc as you do cycling.
3. Varia vision: In addition to displaying metrics when cycling, displays notifications about incoming messages, performance alerts, and GPS navigation bearings.

#10) Gaming

Play location-based games and make games more real and practical by customizing them to your environments and choosing location-based competitors.

Pokemon Go combat:

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Pokemon Go: Play on your smartphone and tablet, a multi-player AR game traveling and discovering hidden Pokemons on real-world map locations.

Website: Pokémon GO

Benefits:

• Now a multiplayer game allowing users from different locations to compete or launch combat against other players when playing the AR game.
• Players use GPS to locate and can take pictures with AR Pokemons found at their locations and even trade Pokemons.
• Players who walk 3 miles or more will not only be able to locate, capture, battle, and train Pokemon but also to unlock Great League, the Ultra League, and the Master League to launch their Pokemons to battle against opponents’ Pokemons regardless of their locations.
• Close to 147 million users per month.

Other augmented reality examples in this category include,

1. Golfscape AR: For trainers in golfing who want to have a 360-degree view of the course, and know the distances for the center, front, and back of the field.
2. Wallame and World Brush: The first allows players to create and hide secret messages within the real world. The second allows users to hide art for others to find.

Conclusion

Some of the best picks from this augmented reality examples tutorial include using augmented reality in home remodeling and improvement. Also, it is helping potential buyers to test products virtually in their spaces before committing to buy.

People are also able to design homes and buildings and construct them with minimal or no errors by comparing designs with the actual building at every stage of construction.

We also have picked the best AR examples in the teaching of math and other subjects in school with gamified learning and teaching. AR is also aiding remote repair and maintenance on factory floors with lesser cost and minimal downtimes. It is also aiding the learning of doctors and medical professionals.

It can be used to boost surgery outcomes with minimal exposure to radiation, and to help medical students, clinicians and doctors learn at lower costs.