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Lee Armstrong
Lee Armstrong

Reputation: 11450

Augmented Reality Toolkit - Android

I have been searching around for free or commercial AR toolkits and need some advice on the best one!

I don't want to have one that recognises a pattern and creates a shape. The idea I have uses the local location and uses POI's from a server to present them onto an AR view.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 12

Views: 7610

Answers (2)

Abhinav
Abhinav

Reputation: 39952

As you don't want one which recognizes shapes, writing one is fairly trivial. You need to detect the user's location, the camera orientation and then draw stuff on the camera. I made one for an app recently and it works quite well. Followed this tutorial: http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/42482

The guy also has written an AR kit. http://twitter.com/#!/androidarkit, http://code.google.com/p/androidarkit/

Upvotes: 8

Pierre-Luc Paour
Pierre-Luc Paour

Reputation: 1775

Looks like big players are starting to open free tools to embed an AR view into 3rd party applications.

  • Layar announced a beta program (iPhone-only, and closed, but presumably this will result in an Android version in the coming weeks/months)

  • Qualcomm announced an SDK for "fall"

Upvotes: 6

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