How to Develop Mobile Apps with Augmented Reality
Technology is changing by the minute; and the software designers, developers, or anyone whose job has them dealing with technology in any form each day, have to always be prepared for it. Therefore, it has become more of a necessity to keep a tab on what’s trending and what’s out. These days, it’s Augmented Reality that has everyone spellbound by its uniqueness, and by being a door a whole new world of possibilities! As this is definitely an area that is far from being outdated any time soon, mobile application development could use all the tools it could get to incorporate this feature into it. 
Therefore, we have come up here with a few of the most well known and extremely important tools to successfully achieve augmented reality in mobile app development
Wikitude Based in Austria, Wikitude is a mobile augmented reality technology that does wonders for providing location-based AR experiences, as well as in the fields of geolocation technologies, and image recognition and tracking. More tilted towards iOS and Android operating systems, its cre product happens to be Wikitude SDK. It has been optimized to work with various smart eyewear devices, in addition to including video overlay, 3D model rendering, as well as software designs kit like SLAM technology (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) that supports markerless tracking.
Layar Talking of important tools in mobile application development, the list can not exist without the mention of Layar. Recognizing additional elements, and being able to map them to the user’s location, as well as any images, is what this tool masters at getting at done. Wondering, how a user can listen to songs they saw on a printed piece of paper, say a magazine? It’s LayAR being in play. Gaining attention as one of the first augmented reality browsers for mobiles in the market a the time, it is now a global leader in augmented reality by having successfully converged the digital world and the print world.
Vuforia Supporting mapping, 2D and 3D recognition, and target tracking, Vuforia is one of the augmented reality technologies that are widely accepted. It is known for being a full fledged software design tool to make AR mobile app development possible. You can even use applications that make use of database present on your local device, or on the cloud, with Vuforia. In addition, even if the target is not anywhere in view, it still doesn’t break the continuity of the overall user experience. It even comes with a feature called TerrainTM through which it can design a 3D map of a ter rain, complete with detection of any images, text, or such present.
ARToolKit An open source library consisting of software tools that play an extremely important role in designing strong augmented reality applications, ARToolKit has been a cornerstone of AR mobile app development. Having been designed in open source code, there is no bar on who can access this vast and popular AR tracking library. Plus, the fact that it supports all different kinds of platforms, like iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS X, and so on, makes it such a widely used phenomenon in the field of augmented reality.
Therefore, we have come up here with a few of the most well known and extremely important tools to successfully achieve augmented reality in mobile app development Wikitude Based in Austria, Wikitude is a mobile augmented reality technology that does wonders for providing location-based AR experiences, as well as in the fields of geolocation technologies, and image recognition and tracking. More tilted towards iOS and Android operating systems, its cre product happens to be Wikitude SDK. It has been optimized to work with various smart eyewear devices, in addition to including video overlay, 3D model rendering, as well as software designs kit like SLAM technology (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) that supports markerless tracking.
Layar Talking of important tools in mobile application development, the list can not exist without the mention of Layar. Recognizing additional elements, and being able to map them to the user’s location, as well as any images, is what this tool masters at getting at done. Wondering, how a user can listen to songs they saw on a printed piece of paper, say a magazine? It’s LayAR being in play. Gaining attention as one of the first augmented reality browsers for mobiles in the market a the time, it is now a global leader in augmented reality by having successfully converged the digital world and the print world.
Vuforia Supporting mapping, 2D and 3D recognition, and target tracking, Vuforia is one of the augmented reality technologies that are widely accepted. It is known for being a full fledged software design tool to make AR mobile app development possible. You can even use applications that make use of database present on your local device, or on the cloud, with Vuforia. In addition, even if the target is not anywhere in view, it still doesn’t break the continuity of the overall user experience. It even comes with a feature called TerrainTM through which it can design a 3D map of a ter rain, complete with detection of any images, text, or such present.
ARToolKit An open source library consisting of software tools that play an extremely important role in designing strong augmented reality applications, ARToolKit has been a cornerstone of AR mobile app development. Having been designed in open source code, there is no bar on who can access this vast and popular AR tracking library. Plus, the fact that it supports all different kinds of platforms, like iOS, Android, Windows, Mac OS X, and so on, makes it such a widely used phenomenon in the field of augmented reality.
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