Augmented Reality (AR) has led to several technologies being at the forefront of innovation and change in every sector and industry. Accelerated advances in Computer Vision (CV), AR, and object detection refined the process of analyzing and comprehending the environment. Object detection has recently drawn a lot of attention as one of the most fundamental and difficult computer vision topics. The traditional object detection techniques are fully computer-based and typically need massive Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) power, while they aren't usually real-time. However, an AR application required real-time superimposed digital data to enable users to improve their field of view. This paper provides a comprehensive review of most of the recent lightweight object detection algorithms that are suitable to be used in AR applications. Four sources including Web of Science, Scopus, IEEE Xplore, and ScienceDirect were included in this review study. A total of ten papers were discussed and analyzed from four perspectives: accuracy, speed, small object detection, and model size. Several interesting challenges are discussed as recommendations for future work in the object detection field.