Evaluation of Augmented Reality Frameworks for Android Development

Evaluation of Augmented Reality Frameworks for Android Development

Augmented Reality

framework

Android

Software evaluation

Augmented Reality (AR) is the evolution of the concept of Virtual Reality (VR). Its goal is to enhance a person's perception of the surrounding world. AR is a fast growing state of the art technology and a variety of implementation tools thereof exist today. Due to the heterogeneity of available technologies, the choice of the appropriate framework for a mobile application is difficult to make. These frameworks implement different tracking techniques and have to provide support to various constraints. This publication aims to point out that the choice of the appropriate framework depends on the context of the app to be developed. As expected, it is accurate that no framework is entirely the best, but rather that each exhibits strong and weak points. Our results demonstrate that given a set of constraints, one framework can outperform others. We anticipate our research to be the starting point for testing of other frameworks, given various constraints. The frameworks evaluated here are open-source or have been purchased under Academic License.

Marneanu, Iulia

Ebner, Martin

Roessler, Thomas

International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 8 No. 4 (2014); pp. 37-44

1865-7923

International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria

2014-10-07

Copyright (c) 2017 Iulia Marneanu, Martin Ebner, Thomas Roessler

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Peer-reviewed Article