Augmented Reality Toolkit - Android

Question

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?

Answer 1

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/

Answer 2

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"