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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?
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If you target Android users, then Google's ARCore is what you're looking for. Similar to ARKit, the framework uses the device's hardware to understand its position and to map the surroundings. ARCore works with devices operating on Android 7.0 (Nougat) or later.
For more information, see Publishing AR Apps in the Google Play Store. To make an app AR Required, follow these steps. Open Edit > Project Settings. Select Google ARCore and verify that ARCore Required is checked.
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/
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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"
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