The tech world is going to experience an increasing presence of augmented reality (AR). The newest issue of WIRED features mirror world as their cover story. The mirror world is a digital replica of the physical world and it will power AR apps. AR cloud is the technical name for the mirror world.
Whilst the fights carry on about who is going to control it, and the intelligent predictions regarding the internet-similar impact augmented reality is going to have on the people, one thing has become clear – AR is eventually being acknowledged as the defining factor it will be, and the realisation is stepping out of the boundary of isolated specialist groups and into the ordinary technical consciousness.
Augmented reality apps are going to be the driving force of AR adoption for enterprises and consumers. They will be the tools to lower the barricade required by non-coders to enter app creation.
WakingApp, an Israel-based company is including visual scripting into its augmented reality design studio. It gives power to a user to create apps with drag & drop options, which can be transformed into a coded design. This makes creating apps relatively simple and straightforward, encouraging a surge of creativity in application design.
WakingApp is not the 1st augmented reality studio to provide visual scripting. Spark AR of Facebook also provides visual programming. The surprising factor is that designers are not provided visual scripting tools by many other AR apps. Game engines such as Blueprints for Unreal and uScript from Unity have already been using visual scripting that is node-based. The fundamentals of building games are fairly standard; designing games become much simpler for non-coders by transforming nodes into real virtual blocks.
Enterprises are going to get the 1st impact of an AR studio that is designer-friendly. The economically-strong companies are beginning to notice the effectiveness related to making in-house augmented reality applications for the workers. – CEO of WakingApp, Matan Libis
According to Libis, the realisation of vast potential surrounding AR capabilities, by the administration at major brands and agencies are making them leverage the tech across their organisations – from training within Human Resources to marketing campaigns. It is for this very reason that intuitive solutions are needed; they enable the creation of augmented reality by everybody rather than just those who can use coding.
He said that the new visual scripting feature has been designed to allow both non-coders and advanced coders to constantly create immersive AR scenarios that can work as standalone apps or be integrated with apps already present.
The native API of WakingApp will still be accessible to programmers through the usage of JavaScript. However, the organisation is hopeful that its fresh visual scripting will allow more designers to include augmented reality features into the currently present mobile apps and encourage the creation of more apps. In this way, AR will allow the company to reach out to the common masses and break the use of AR by only a selected circle of people.
