Advantages of Using Augmented Reality in Publishing Sectors

Augmented Reality technology is the best way to improve the tactics in receiving and delivering of information. Augmented Reality generates new revenue streams or improves tedious solutions in the context of the Media and Publishing. This technology addresses innovative solutions by providing analysis and perspective in the Publishing sector.

The rapid spread of such a technology in the last few years generated the opportunities and benefits to the publishing sector. As a result, there are many possible AR applications in the context of different market segments in the industry. AR applications for smart devices allow users to view augmented images directly on the screen of the phone of their surroundings.

AR applications blend content and information layers in the physical reference system of the user experience. This helps users with digital access to helpful data.

Publishers using Augmented Reality

Publishers today are adding life with a surprise AR element made for a great learning experience. AR in publishing helps publishers enhance the level of engagement and encouragement to readers. Therefore, interactive experiences can be added at the school as well as corporate level with the help of AR content. This helps in creating limitless possibilities of Augmented Reality solutions in publishing at any sphere. AR supports the factors for successful innovation in publishing.

Role of Augmented Reality in Publishing:

•   Plays a vital role in the transition from paper to digital.

•   Enhances learner retention with engagement

•   Makes it interactive and easier to reach more learners

•   Augmented reality solutions shape the future of the publishing

There is a necessity to invest in publishing books for publishers that support the AR environment. The availability of platform-independent software and smart devices, publishing products are on the rise. Augmented Reality books, magazines, newspapers are a new source of entertainment, advertising, and education. The blend of AR content and information layers in the physical reference allows the user to access appropriate information.

Benefits of Augmented Reality Applied to Publishing

A big thanks to Augmented Reality that we can imagine completely new methods of adding AR elements to traditional print media. Advance generation of publishing products and services that is able to generate revenue streams for brands and enterprises. Therefore, Augmented Reality technology is universally accepted across the various segments of the publishing market.

This technology is revolutionizing the traditional publishing, multimedia content including books, magazines, newspapers, posters, educational and multimedia products. Due to the flexible and cross-media nature of this technology, a number of ideas can be better employed in the publishing industry.

AR in the field of Advertisement can create special content areas, especially targeted to advertisers directly through AR magazines and AR newspapers. The visualization of digital content, 3D models, video, audio, interactive 3D animations can be triggered in a given physical context.

It is offering an opportunity to convey content in a wide variety of digital content. This boost the level retention and engagement experienced by readers. Moreover, this also helped publishers to redefine information and cultural content.

The concept of GPS with AR is now possible to revolutionize the concept of AR newspaper or AR magazine. This is making the content available directly from the screen of a smartphone overlaid on the mobile screen with geotags. As a result, the user may have direct access to immersive and informative content in a communicating manner.

AR solution with augmented digital content makes the product more informative and appealing. This possibly increases its commercial potential. Thus Augmented acts as an ingredient of AR product that can help to generate important revenue streams for publishers.

AR business prospect in the publication sector:

·       Increase the number of user retention rate

·       Offer quality and immersive types of information

·       Create new revenue streams from advertising

·       Improve reader’s loyalty with converging publishing products

·       Creates attractive trends for readers

Bottom line

Besides unavoidable challenges the potential of Augmented Reality applications in the publishing sector is huge. Augmented reality solutions offer significant added value, both on the cultural and on the commercial levels. This generated a new market of opportunities particularly in the field of advertisement of brands and services. The advent of Augmented Reality is a new horizon of adoption in the market that is inevitable.