How Augmented Reality Can Improve The Physical Well-Being Of Millions

Apr 17, 2023

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It’s not easy to motivate yourself to stick to a healthy, active lifestyle. While there are dozens of smartwatches and fitness applications available that can track your progress and help you to achieve your goals, they still don’t provide much of an incentive to get yourself moving.

It’s for this reason that we’re so excited about the potential of augmented reality technology to give us a little more inspiration. AR, as it’s known, is a technology that overlays digital media or graphics onto the real world. It can be experienced by using a display such as a smartphone or tablet, or through a dedicated AR device such as goggles. Users can then see a real world that’s blended with the digital realm, enhancing multiple kinds of activities.

One of the best known examples of AR is the Pokemon Go smartphone game, where digital characters will appear as you use your display to view your surroundings in real time. Another example is the Pixel Android smartphone, which makes it possible to add 3D characters to videos and photos through its Playmoji feature. Other apps, such as mapping apps, can overlay digital information on videos and images captured by a smartphone.

The great thing about AR is that, unlike virtual reality, it doesn’t require a fully computer-generated environment. It simply enhances the real world environment around you, and that makes it applicable to a number of different applications.

AR Enhances The Great Outdoors

The basic premise of AR is that it can be used to add gamification to all manner of smartphone apps, incentivizing people to get out and explore the world around them.

When it launched back in 2016, was a great example of how this works. For a few weeks, the game became the world over, inspiring millions of people to head outside and hunt for different Pokemon creatures that could only be collected by going to physical locations and finding them. The idea is to collect as many Pokemons as you can. When you go outside and you get close to a new Pokemon, it will appear on the map. Switch on your smartphone camera and then, when you get close enough, the character will appear on the display in front of you, allowing you to capture it and add it to your collection.

Pokemon Go works by motivating users to get out of the house and explore different locations, providing a fun way for people to increase their daily step count and improve their health.

Looking to build on this idea is , a startup that’s building a blockchain-based social media network that overlays AR onto the real world. will encompass the entire world, with users able to move around their cities, leaving notes, messages and 3D objects for others to find. It’s all about social connections and encouraging people to get out of their houses and do more in the real world.

The idea with Peer is that you can use your smartphone or its dedicated AR glasses to interact with the surrounding landscape, responding to the notes and messages they discover and picking up objects. Businesses, for example, could hide digital promotions in various parts of the city and invite people to discover them in return for prizes or discounts. Creators might want to exhibit digital artwork in their city’s most famous landmarks.

The possibilities with Peer’s gamified, AR-based social network are truly endless, and they benefit humanity by encouraging users to spend more time outside, exploring the world.

There are more dedicated fitness apps and devices exploring AR too. For instance, is a smart mirror that’s meant to enhance the home gym experience by providing visual instructions and feedback for workouts. The life-sized display will show the correct form and posture for each type of exercise, along with instructions and feedback, making it simpler to follow and get in shape.

NordicTrack Vault offers strength training, yoga, HIIT and various other types of workout, and users can interact with it via its touchscreen display.

Moreover, AR even expands to the aquatic world with , which is designed to help people to swim more efficiently and track their performance. It’s a waterproof heads-up display device that can be attached to any regular pair of swimming goggles. It projects graphics directly onto the goggle lens, showing information such as a lap timer, set distance, elapsed time, current pace, coaching instructions and more. It can be especially helpful for professional swimmers.

Gamification Is Motivation

There’s no doubting the potential of AR when it comes to promoting physical well-being. The main advantage of AR is that it enables the gamification of numerous kinds of activities, such as walking, running or swimming. The competitive element that comes from gamification promises to make all the difference to the legions of people who would otherwise struggle to motivate themselves to live an active lifestyle.

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Rolph Winfield
As a graduate of Journalism and Broadcasting and a crypto believer, I am aims to document humanity's journey of embracing innovative technologies through blockchain. My passionate is hiking and climbing.