While one of the biggest problems posed at AR is the lack of consumer availability devices, there are a few AR apps clearing the obstacle on mobile devices. The following are examples of AR mobile apps and their uses:
Google Translate possesses a unique visual technical quality although it's simple. The app is used to translate road signs, menus, and other text-based contents in the language of the user's choice. For example, while traveling in a foreign country, you're wearing your pair of AR glasses powered by Google Translate; the pair of glasses will translate the foreign language into a language of your choice and retain the signs on the board. While this eliminates the language barrier, it protects the original outlook of the signpost.
Blippar operates as a gateway between the virtual and physical worlds through AR. Blippar scans any item a user points at and recognizes them, and therefore offers information about the item. For example, if a user points at a laptop, Blippar will offer details about it via Wikipedia or direct the user to online sites to read laptop reviews. If the app is aimed at a famous person, Blippar offers information about the person. It is simply an app powered by augmented reality to perform a human function, just like a robot.
Following the spike in the attention of Augmented Reality development, the design of ARise specifically functions through the use of AR features. It's a game that guides a hero to its target by providing smart controls of touch and swipe. A user aligns his perspective to reach his goal by navigating the holographic world through movements.
These two apps are launched with a rich use of location-based gaming and augmented reality development. In Ingress, users choose a team and capture portals at locations sprawled around the globe. A map is provided to disclose the real world to a gamer, and the portal closest to her. To capture a portal, the user must be about 40-meters close to the portal, and this makes the game an avenue to explore the virtual presentation of the real world.
Pokémon Go is popular and similar. The user is a Pokémon trainer with a map of his digital representation. It operates like Ingress; Pokémon empowers users to experience the world virtually in an adventure. The two games are AR's means of reinforcing the real world digitally.