well, you could do a lot with 2D recognition for a start. already being done with other frameworks:
I think this quote describes it pretty well 
“It’s a AR play,” Bachman says. “That’s the frothiest space in the Valley right now. Nobody understands it but everyone wants in. Any idiot could walk into a ******* room, utter the letters ‘a’ and ‘r’, and VC’s would hurl bricks of cash at them.
“By the time they find out it’s vaporware, it’s too late. I’ve got to get into this.”
so if i “quote” myself or any user here that defend AR, that makes my point better?
It’s his point of view…like mine or any other else here. Apple invested hard on AR, even on chipset level. Touch force they invested also (and all new devices still have it, contrary to Android vendors that one year they bet one thing…another they bet on another leaving the other behind). In this case, Google is investing also in AR, I don’t think Apple or Google abandoning this technology soon, meanwhile lots of apps will appear on stores that will make money…even if in 2, 3 years it will be gone (which I doubt) all the companies that made those projects won money. You can make money selling apps to other companies also you know? not only doing games and getting money from advertisement or selling in app items, or selling the app it self.
There is a very simple solution here. File a feature request and vote it up. Having some use cases of where AR would be useful to you would be helpful in the feature request as well (add to the comments of any of the relevant posts). There are two active entries already:
http://feedback.coronalabs.com/forums/188732-corona-feature-requests-feedback?query=augmented
Vote them up!
Rob
Hi @Abdo23,
There are no immediate plans at this time. We’ll need to evaluate where the market goes as Apple, Google, and others push their support of AR forward, and how Corona might treat those toolsets/SDKs.
Brent
I think corona may have a hard time entering the ar/vr space without full on supporting 3D. Unless they have been working on it secretly for years, it may take them a long time enter the 3D space.
That’s just my opinion
if you ask me it’s a big mistake not looking (and investing) at AR seriously. if AR kicks off (and i believe it will because of the possibilities that can be done, and from my clients that ask me about it every day), corona will be 0 interest to new programmers since it will not support AR for a couple of years or more and the ones using Corona will migrate to other platforms that support it.
I don’t think there’s any value in trying to compete with 3D engines like Unity. They have a 6-7 year head start and a lot more money. Even if Corona somehow supported AR, what’s the incentive to use Corona instead of an established, industry-standard tool that already has support for AR & VR?
You could use corona native for ar or vr.
You could use a swan to paint your bathroom, but why would you?
I just think you can use corona for most of your app and then switch to native code when you need to do some arkit stuff. Arkit is actually pretty great, I have been playing around with it.
@nick_sherman, I don’t think would be that hard because the SDKs are already provided by Google and Apple, it’s not doing something from scratch. it’s just using the toolset kits already done and provided. I learned unity 6 years ago, and I prefer to program in Corona than in unity for productivity apps. most of my clients want to integrate AR into their apps (museums, car dealers, magazines, product sellers, etc).
@scott Harrison, I went to Corona because I wanted to reduce costs on learning 2 languages and building time would take for different platforms. it’s the “sale pitch” of Corona. Any new company starting, would appreciate the reduced costs.
if all key features are only provided on native languages, what’s the point of corona anyway? to build squares and buttons? On the long run, it would be more expensive because I would need to contract programmers to build native, or I would need to learn them anyway.
Corona like all frameworks out there needs to evolve and adapt. if they can’t the risk of fading away is real.
Right now I can’t recommend to anyone Corona. If any of my friends who are starting new companies ask me what languages they should invest…corona is not on that list. Don’t get me wrong, I love to program in Corona, but since I only learned Corona, I feel trapped for what it can provide. And I see Corona limitations every day. If I’m going to learn Swift or Java, I would leave Corona for good and I don’t won’t that because i really like Lua language, Corona community and support. but every day it passes, the more i think i need to change to a new platform.
Yeah, I don’t think it’s that hard to implement AR in Corona given the API’s are already provided by Apple and Google. I was going to ask about the implementation of CoreML but I thought I would be stretching it.
While Corona is easy and fast with a well-written documentation, I don’t see a lot of people use it, recommend it or even know about it. Some money needs to be spent if Corona to be relevant in either game-app development.
I see corona as two things,
Great app and business platform.
And a great 2d game platform.
It has never been great at anything beyond 2.5.
As for ar, arkit only has 22 votes which is terrible for the amount of time and resources it will take to get it working
From my standpoint… and this isn’t “pro-Corona” or “anti-Corona”… I’m taking a very much “wait and see” approach to AR. It doesn’t really excite me, and I don’t see it as the wave of the future that some expect (despite Apple/Google investing heavily into it). I don’t see it as a feature or functionality that more than perhaps 2% of clients would actually need… rather, it’s getting a ton of buzz right now, but maybe in a year or two (despite whatever technological advances happen) it really won’t be much further along in overall customer usage than it is now.
I could be wrong (I’ve been wrong before), but AR strikes me as something like Google Glass which generated a huge buzz. “Everybody will be wearing Google Glass! It’s the wave of the future! It will change the very world we live in and revolutionize our lives!!!” etc. etc. And now where is Google Glass? If anybody has one, it’s effectively a dead brick.
Just my two cents. Feel free to disagree.
Brent
I had the same feeling as you do with VR, but believe me when I say, AR IS the future. Companies like Volks Wagen and General Electric are already using it in their manufacturing process, there is a very useful app where you see how IKEA furniture fit in your own home, And I can already see other major companies use it in their apps like for example trying on clothes before buying them. Not to mention that it could be really useful in fields like Medicine or Architecture.
AR unlike (Google glass or VR) goes way beyond entertainment, it’s cheap, doesn’t require any extra devices and much more useful.
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wi4XiFgMI0&t=365s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdv0b0nBqPk
Brent, like you, I never gave more than 2 seconds of my time on Google Glass technology or like 3D on TVs or curved TVs. It’s kind more ways to make money for the companies trying to give something different to their clients. In my case I care less about this technology because I’ve only 1 eye (car accident). so any of this new techs are useless to me.
but AR, it’s not that kind of tech. Look at Pokeman game, I bet when companies saw the money they were and are making, they invested large in AR to build some kind of alternative games using the same approach (using AR). This tech takes time to learn, evolve and create something good, so in this year and the next we will see lots of games appearing with this technology. the ones that started will make more money because of the new hype… when it passes… and google play and apple store are full of crap with it… people will move on to other things… but for business apps they could be very very useful on the long term. even for marketing companies if they use it right. you see 2%…i see infinite ways…about people needing it. the world if full of things that we don’t need. that never stoped from creating more stuffs that we don’t need. do you really need any computer game? how people survived before them or had fun? my girfriend never played one…and shes pretty happy with her life. clients my not need it, but sure they will want it if it gives some edge to their competition. when half gets it…the other half will need to get it so they are not behind…but then again,…i can be wrong 
@Abdo23, i’m with you every word you said. the possibilities of AR are endless. if we where in a coffee, drinking a cold beer i could give more than 100 examples how it could be useful on day-to-day basis, but my writing skills are too bad to write about it. speaking of cold beer…let me have one…weekend…weeee
I had the same thoughts about Apple TV, Ouya, and Android tv. But those have all failed or not
been that successful. I am not a fan of ar on my phone, except for the Snapchat selfie thing which I see less and less people using. It does not matter how many big names use it, what matter is consumers. Pokémon go uses ar but I don’t think it was an essential part of the app, it could also be turned off, which is what I did. Corona will only add ar of developers want it, as I said above only 22 votes is not going to cut it
keep ignoring the future…is a good start to be ignored.
https://www.androidpit.com/arkit-how-apple-is-quietly-reinventing-the-smartphone