An Augmented Reality Browser
Raghav Sood · Apress eBooks · 2012
Welcome to Chapter 9. This is the last chapter in this book, which has covered the different aspects of augmented reality (AR) from making a basic app, using markers, overlaying widgets, and making navigational apps. This final chapter discusses the example app of a real-world AR browser. This browser is something along the lines of the extremely popular Wikitude and Layar apps, but not quite as extensive. Wikitude and Layar are very powerful tools that were developed over a long period of time and provide many, many features. Our AR browser will be relatively humble, but still very, very powerful and useful: It will have a live camera preview Twitter posts and topics of Wikipedia articles that are located nearby will be displayed over this preview There will be a small radar visible that allows the user to see whether any other overlays are available outside their field of view Overlays will be moved in and out of the view as the user moves and rotates The user can set the radius of data collection from 0m to 100,000m (100 km) These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.