At the same time we have good reasons to believe that applications such as navigation and games can have augmented reality solutions quite soon. It is true that augmented reality apps are still quite useless demos in real life. It might work well for people who speak English with a standard accent, but solutions still have a lot of work to do with different languages and accents, really smooth user experience and background noise.Īugmented Reality is approaching the valley after the hype peak and we should still wait for 5 to 10 years for real solutions to emerge. in Google’s and Apple’s products, but I still have some doubts with it. This year it is especially interesting to see the positions of Speech Recognition, Augmented Reality, Machine-to-machine (M2M) Services, Big Data, Internet of things (IoT), Wearable User Interfaces, and Virtual Personal Assistant.Īccording to Gartner, Speech Recognition is really approaching the productive phase and we should expect commercial applications in a larger scale soon. Of course, it is only one opinion about the future of new technology, but it normally helps to predict how long we must wait for new commercial products, as well as which technologies are still too unclear to make real applications.
Many technologies on the curve are linked to mobile, communications and telecom industries. Gartner recently published its 2014 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies.