How can MARISIL change the way we see AR Mobile UIs

Augmented Reality (AR) is not new to the business world. Many such innovations around AR have revolutionized the mobile app and its UI. However, the functionality of AR apps requires effective hardware integration to provide a fully augmented user experience and MARISIL ( Mobile Augmented Reality Interface Sign Interpretation Language) can do the same.

The global AR market is set to cross $198 billion by 2025 from meagre $5.91 billion in 2018, which shows how it has gained some momentum in the last few years.

Today, mobile app development processes are integrating intelligent technologies such as AR to enhance the user experience(UX) of the applications. We have already seen the integration of AR technologies in Social Media platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat.

Facebook introduced SparkAR to facilitate several developers to develop AR-based mobile apps. Even e-commerce giants like Amazon built “Sumerian” to help developers create more AR-based innovations and mobile apps.

What are AR mobile apps?

Augmented Reality is superimposing CGIs (Computer Generated Images) on your surrounding view to provide an augmented view. When a developer uses the same principle for designing the UI of a mobile app, it automatically creates an augmented UI for mobile apps.

The AR app, however, is designed specifically for AR-based hardware like AR headsets. The problem here is input requests. Currently, users use an AR headset that can be connected through cables or wireless technology to dedicated mobile apps.

Users can request a query or command apps for interaction through input facilities provided in the mobile app. Here, technologies like MARISIL can totally change this scenario and introduce a fully AR-based input system.

What is MARISIL?

MARISIL or Mobile Augmented Reality interface sign interpretation language is a computer-specific input language parameter for a unique input system called- HandSmart.

Let us put this in simpler terms. Imagine you want to search “island of tears” on Google and you want to experience the AR view of the island on your AR headset, what will you do?

You may open the Google map app which has an AR view facility now on your mobile and then type “island of tears” on your input system defined by mobile UI. But, what if you can use your hand as a keyboard? Yes! This is what HandSmart UI, powered by MARISIL technology, can achieve.

MARISIL for Mobile UIs

MARISIL can be integrated with a new technology that incorporates HandSmart and gesture control. Businesses today are investing highly in AR-based gesture control for mobile apps to transforming their app ideas into reality.

Mobile UIs can be designed by integrating digital information overlay over real digital views with gesture control through gloves connected to a properly configured system as given below.

Image Source: Application module interconnection and layers

Here, pointer gestures can command user requests to mobile APIs (Application Program Interface) to generate a reactive response from the system through AR headsets.

Image Source: Gesture UI

MARISIL parameters can regulate sign language or gesture control interaction with users. The user interface can be designed to incorporate basic input functions like menus, digits, alphabets, etc. as can be seen in the below figure.

Image Source: Augmented UI on hand for data input or user requests.

As you can see in the above example, a smart UI is augmented on the hand of the user with options like page-up, page-down, messages, menus, names, etc. We can design similar augmented interfaces to enhance UX with AR-based keyboards and other gesture controls.

Let us take an example of using a hand augmented browser, we can design a UI that can overlay an entire browser over the hand with basic functions to access the necessary digital information by gestures of opening and closing a palm and removing any information from the list with a flick of a finger.

Image Source: Hand Augmented Browser UI

Tangible UIs

We can achieve highly responsive AR-based input UIs with tangible UIs. Tangible Augmented Reality is a system that allows real objects to be overlayed by virtual information for users to interact on a tangible scale.

Tangible ARs are far more real than other augmented systems without any compromise with the virtual information being augmented. The most important application of tangible UIs is to allow users to feel touch-sense during their interaction.

Advanced AR-based UI applications that we can build through MARISIL

Volume UIs: Today, most AR-based applications are for entertainment purposes. Users utilize AR headsets to stream entertainment media on OTT (Over the Top) platforms.

Image Source: Hand augmented volume control UI

AR-based volume control to enhance their viewing experience through gesture control can certainly improve UX. As can be seen in the above figure, hand augmented volume control can be done through tangible UI designed by volume level overlay on hand.

Handwriting UI:Think literally, creating a word through freehand writing with gestures! With effective integration of MARISIL-based gesture control and tangible AR, a handwritten UI can be created as given below.

Image Source: Handwriting UI

Here, the palm is used as space where you can create your freehand writing alphabets through finger gestures controlled through parameters specifically set by MARISIL and a tangible UI that can overlay the freehand writing on the user’s hand.

Such advanced UIs can enhance the UX and engage users better than current mobile app UIs. For businesses and startups, it can be an opportunity to develop their products around such technologies for better customer journeys.

Signing Off

Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality have been evolving for years now. Such evolution will continue to dominate innovations with hardware and software integrations to make mobile UIs more user-friendly.

As businesses around the world realize the importance of innovations in their regular business operations, AR will see more potential investments in the coming years. User interfaces, too, have evolved from basic designs to be more graphically reactive and enhanced.

With AR integration, UIs will be more advanced than ever. If you are a business with an innovative mindset, AR-based UIs are your new beacons to better UX!

Originally published at https://datafloq.com.