Editorial: 5G for Augmented Reality

Tremendous efforts have been devoted to 5G over the last decade. Due to their success, a broad range of critical applications such as smart city, home robotics, and Augmented Reality (AR) have been made possible already, or are within reach. The 5G network as a technology inherently brings aspects such as high-speed, ultra-low latency and high bandwidth — all in a wireless communication network. 5G will especially help establish the Internet of Things as an indispensable part of our world, by laying the foundation for unleashing its full potential. It’s a long way to when 5G becomes mainstream, but businesses need to start now with developing and reimagining services and products to leverage 5G’s superior capabilities. Moreover, 5G and IoT together will also help in bringing every item on the shelf to the internet by creating digital twins for them. If the number of hardware connected devices is expected to be in the billions, the potential for ordinary consumer products with digital twins to be a part of the new Internet of Things is considerably more. …