Declarative AR and image processing on the web with Xflow
Felix Klein, Dmitri Rubinstein, Kristian Sons, Farshad Einabadi, Stephan Herhut, Philipp Slusallek · 2013
Recently, modern Web browser became capable of supporting powerful, interactive 3D graphics both via the low-level, imperative API of WebGL as well as via a high-level, declarative approach like XML3D. The obvious next step (particularly with respect to mobile platforms) is to combine video from the real world with matched virtual content -- Augmented or Mixed Reality (AR/MR). However, AR requires extensive image or video processing, feature detection and tracking, and applying the results to 3D rendering -- all of which is hard to implement in a Web context.