{"id":13890,"date":"2015-04-01T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13890"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:00:24","slug":"augmented-reality-gets-to-work-and-gets-past-the-glassholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/augmented-reality-gets-to-work-and-gets-past-the-glassholes","title":{"rendered":"Augmented reality gets to work\u2014and gets past the \u201cGlassholes\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/author\/sean-gallagher\/\" rel=\"author\">Sean Gallagher<\/a> \u2014 ars technica<br \/> Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that has been on the cusp of becoming the next big thing for over 20 years. But the technology\u2014the projection of data or digital imagery over real-world objects\u2014has largely remained the stuff of fighter cockpits at the high end and of mobile games and art projects on the low. The <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2014\/06\/android-wear-smartwatches-make-google-glass-obsolete\/\">promise of Google Glass<\/a>\u2014real augmented reality for the masses\u2014failed to materialize.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean the technology won\u2019t fly at all. While many organizations experimented with Glass, other devices already in the hands\u2014and on the heads\u2014of companies and software developers have been pushing forward augmented reality in multiple industries. Work is being done today to integrate corporate cloud applications and data from intelligent machines connected to the \u201cInternet of Things\u201d into applications for mobile and wearable devices. And all this could help make humans on the factory floor, on the flight line, in hospitals, and in the field more effective and efficient. With Microsoft\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2015\/01\/hands-on-with-hololens-making-the-virtual-real\/\">HoloLens<\/a> promising a standard development platform for AR, the cost of building those applications could plummet in the next few years.<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2015\/03\/augmented-reality-gets-to-work-and-gets-past-the-glassholes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sean Gallagher \u2014 ars technica Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that has been on the cusp of becoming the next big thing for over 20 years. But the technology\u2014the projection of data or digital imagery over real-world objects\u2014has largely remained the stuff of fighter cockpits at the high end and of mobile games [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64780,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13890\/revisions\/64780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}