Black Friday Special Tech Talk: Augmented Reality Shopping

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There are always new and exciting ways to use technology. This year has been big for augmented reality,Microsoft announced Mixed Reality headsets and has made available AR hardware from 3rd parties such as Dell, Acer, and Lenovo.

Apple announced ARkit and released iOS 11 with new augmented reality features.

Apple ARKit was announced at Apple WWDC 2017

One of the most immediate uses of Augmented reality is Amazon’s AR view. All you need is iOS 11 and the Amazon app, select the little camera in the upper right hand corner and tap AR view. There are a list of items available on Amazon to be viewed in your own space via Augmented Reality. I tried it out on my iPhone and found it to be fairly robust.

Here are some pictures in the office here at ABS:

What if this were my office chair?
You could call this a real life image of a DOS machine.

This is a fun way to shop and allows you to avoid the the black friday horror stories in style. We wish you all a happy Thanksgiving weekend, happy shopping, and happy holidays from all of us here at ABS!