Unity and the Augmented Reality Boom

[Ramesh Maddegoda]

From Unity Technologies Blog:

Currently, there’s an explosion of Augmented Reality (AR) projects, with fifteen new Unity-based apps appearing on the App Store alone everyday. They add a virtual layer to the real world that you can see through a camera or in a special display.

AR brings radical innovations to countless areas, from guiding tourists and selling air conditioning to building aircraft carriers. But it can go even further than that. Some predict AR will bring about the era of natural computing that will free us from staring into monitors all day.

Films like Iron Man or Minority Report show what this could one day look like. But AR is already a practical feature that provides a livelihood to a number of studios. 

Read more at
http://blogs.unity3d.com/2013/08/13/unity-and-the-augmented-reality-boom/