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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?

Lee Armstrong
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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/

Abhinav
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    Ah. Damn. I just followed the tutorial. Some code seems to be there on github: http://github.com/haseman/Android-AR-Kit – Abhinav Nov 02 '10 at 17:58
  • Thanx for that info! I think I'll try the first link and I'll build my own "AR Viewer" as I don't need any shape recognition – Alex Jan 11 '12 at 10:25
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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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