Abstract
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.
Highlights
Augmented Reality is a very promising emerging technology, growing in popularity on mobile devices
The AR technology has made great progress on mobile phones, and Juniper Research further predicted in 2012 that over 2.5 billion mobile AR apps will be downloaded annually to smartphones and tablets by 2017 [3]. These premises lead to the research question – “Which is currently the best open framework for developing an Augmented Reality mobile application?” Towards this goal, we evaluated open AR frameworks for Android mobile development, due to the fact that the iOS platform has been evaluated over the years and clear results can be found in Dominik Rockenschaub’s Master’s Thesis [4]
The testing environment changes between criteria and by testing one criterion at a time for every framework, the environment is minimally altered during the testing
Summary
Augmented Reality is a very promising emerging technology, growing in popularity on mobile devices. The AR technology has made great progress on mobile phones, and Juniper Research further predicted in 2012 that over 2.5 billion mobile AR apps will be downloaded annually to smartphones and tablets by 2017 [3] These premises lead to the research question – “Which is currently the best open framework for developing an Augmented Reality mobile application?” Towards this goal, we evaluated open AR frameworks for Android mobile development, due to the fact that the iOS platform has been evaluated over the years and clear results can be found in Dominik Rockenschaub’s Master’s Thesis [4]. Another incentive for researching the Android specific open AR frameworks is the recent job market growth registered in Android development [5]
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