NGRAIN Augmented Reality lets you create and deploy industrial AR for mission-critical applications. With the NGRAIN platform, you can develop and deploy AR content across your enterprise with a single click - no coding required!
Creator/Company: NGRAIN
Web site: www.ngrain.com
Email: nballard@ngrain.com
Video showing the combination of SoftKinetic hand tracking middleware, SoftKinetic DepthSense camera and the Oculus Rift.
We’re bringing Natural Human Interaction in the Virtual environment by reconstruction the 3D model of your hands and by providing robust tracking of individual fingers, plam position and orientation, posing gestures and hand openness.
The Hands and Fingers tracking SDK is available for free from SoftKinetic website and offers full hands and fingers tracking on Windows, Android and Linux.
The SoftKinetic DepthSense camera is available from SoftKinetic web store or from Amazon under the Creative SenZ3D camera.
The Unity samples and Oculus bracket is available from the Cool Stuff section of SoftKinetic website.
http://www.softkinetic.com/products/coolstuff.aspx
Company: Layar
Website: layar.com
Product site: https://www.layar.com/products/custom-solutions/sdk/
Description:
EASILY EMBED LAYAR’S TECHNOLOGY INTO EXISTING MOBILE APPS
With the Layar SDK, you can keep your audience in your own branded apps while providing amazing, interactive experiences.
VISION SDK
Let your audience scan and enjoy Interactive Print content from your own mobile app. You can include campaigns produced in the Layar Creator, or content built using the Layar API with support for 3D and animation. Just embed the Layar Vision SDK to let your users start enjoying Interactive Print in your app.
GEO SDK
Enables you to give users the experience of Layar’s Geo Layers in your app. Geo Layers display location-based augments on top of a phone’s camera view. Anything with location data can be used!
Popular examples include Funda, which shows hyperlocal real estate listings for homes and apartments, and UAR, which displays architectural information about nearby buildings of the past, present and future.
Creators: Metaio, The Augmented Reality Company
http://metaio.com
The SDK is available for free download at http://metaio.com/products/sdk
The Metaio SDK supports:
- native iOS & Android apps
- cross-platform HTML5 apps
- Unity, or nearly any 3rd party rendering engine
- Google Glass, Vuzix headwear, Epson Moverio BT-200
Features:
- internal rendering engine based on OpenGL
- 2-D Marker & Markerless (images, surfaces, photos, planar objects etc) tracking
- 3-D point cloud recognition and tracking
- 3-D Dynamic environment tracking (SLAM)
- 3-D Edge-based tracking, the only available tracking that utilizes CAD data
- Continuous Visual Search for up to 100,000 images
- Cloud optimization and deployment
The Metaio SDK has been used professionally for over a decade by companies like IKEA, Audi, LEGO, Mitsubishi Electric and more to bring content to life and value to customers and workers. It’s the only SDK that offers industrial precision for tracking and has more versatility than any other platform.
ARPA SDK®: Creator: Arpa-Solutions (www.arpa-solutions.net)
ARPA SDK® is an Augmented Reality Software for creating amazing interactive experiences for augmented world geo apps, advertising, marketing campaigns, museums, games and much more. ARPA® SDK provides a simple and intuitive API for developing AR applications:
• ARPA® SDK Image Detection & Tracking Module
• ARPA® SDK GPS & Sensors Module
• ARPA® Plugin for Unity
• ARPA® GLASS SDK Image Recognition
• ARPA® GLASS SDK GPS
ARPA® SDK Image Detection & Tracking Module: Using ARPA® SDK, your application will be able to render real time video captured by the device camera and, simultaneously, display multimedia content over the detected markers.
ARPA® SDK Image Detection & Tracking Module: http://www.arpa-solutions.net/en/ARPA_SDK
ARPA® SDK GPS & Sensors Module: Using ARPA® GPS SDK module you can create AR applications based on geolocation, so that your application will be able to find points of interest (POIs) near to the user's location and show augmented information about how to get to them through three operating modes: AR, List and Map mode.
ARPA® SDK GPS & Sensors Module: http://www.arpa-solutions.net/en/ARPA_SDK
ARPA® Plugin for Unity allows you to easily create AR advergames using Unity, the most powerful and widely used game engine.
ARPA® Plugin for Unity: http://www.arpa-solutions.net/en/ARPA_Plugin_Unity
ARPA® GLASS SDK Image Recognition: Using this module, you can create AR apps for Google Glass that will be able to recognize images and display any kind of multimedia content related to those images.
ARPA® Glass SDK Image Recognition: http://www.arpa-solutions.net/en/ARPA_GLASS
ARPA® GLASS SDK GPS: this module allows developers to create AR apps for Google Glass based on geolocation. Your application will be able to find points of interest (POIs) near to the user's location and show information about how to get to them.
ARPA® Glass SDK GPS: http://www.arpa-solutions.net/en/ARPA_GLASS
Company: Layar
Website: layar.com
Product site: layar.com/products/creator
Description: The Layar Creator is the perfect do-it-yourself tool to build and manage amazing, engaging Interactive Print experiences – all on the Web and with just a few clicks.
Stand out from the crowd and strengthen the power of print with interactivity.
MIMAS is a platform for creating apps to access multimedia contents via image recognition and GPS location. Get an account from http://scholar-milk.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/mimas-v4/ . Login and create your apps. Download the Snap2Tell app from App Store https://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/snap2tell/id632449681?mt=8 . Login using the same user name and password to run your app.
Qualcomm Vuforia is a mobile vision platform that enables apps to see and connect the physical world with digital experiences that demand attention, drive engagement, and deliver value. Vuforia leverages Qualcomm’s mobile technology leadership and provides best-in-class augmented reality experiences by delivering interactive 3D graphics, touch, video, and audio features to bring movie magic and computer graphics to mobile apps. The Qualcomm Vuforia SDK is available for download here.
Vuforia delivers best-in-class computer vision capabilities and a broad range of options for creative empowerment, including simultaneous tracking of multiple targets, video playback, virtual buttons, background effects and occlusion management (“X-ray vision”). It delivers robustness to ensure that app experiences work the first time – and every time. Vuforia 2.8, released in Fall 2013, added extended tracking, Java APIs and cloud-based content hosting. The new Smart Terrain feature (available in Spring 2014) uses advanced 3D geometric mapping techniques to see and reconstruct environments in real-time, giving apps the intelligence to interact with various objects and surfaces. Vuforia is supported by a global ecosystem of 95,000+ developers and has powered 8,500+ commercial apps globally.
Connectar Creator is a universal online creator that will allow you to create free AR-content to multiple SDK's (like Metaio, Layar, Wikitude, Craftar etc.)
This presentation was held at InsideAR, October 2013 in Munich at the release of oir beta-website. At AWE we will launch version 1.0, ready for the crowd to be served.
Company: Inglobe Technologies
Website: http://www.armedia.it
Product site: http://www.armedia.it/armedia_products.php
The ARmedia Plugin and Player is an easy to use and cross-platform content creation tool for Augmented Reality.
The ARplugins allow users to create AR contents by using the tools directly provided by the most important 3D authoring programs including Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya, Trimble SketchUp, Maxon Cinema4D and Nemetschek Vectorworks.
The contents created with the ARplugin can be visualized using the ARmedia Player which is available for Mobile devices (iOS and Android) and for PC Windows / Mac OS X. The Plugin/Player also supports a variety of AR head mounted displays.
High quality and complex AR content can be created with the tools with almost no modification required for the original 3D models.
Inglobe has pioneered the ARplugin approach since 2008 with a user base growing up to +40.000 registered and active users.
Wikitude Augmented Reality SDK for Eyewear
Creating stunning apps for smart glasses just became a lot easier. The award winning Wikitude SDK does all the heavy lifting for you, allowing you to focus on creating incredible content that is specifically tailored to these unique platforms (Google Glass, Epson Moverio BT-200, Vuzix M100).
Each SDK is now available via the Wikitude Store and features:
★ Unlimited distribution for the licensed app
★ 3D model rendering
★ Image recognition and tracking
★ Video Augmentations
★ Location based AR
★ 6 months support
The device specific SDKs are available at:
Google Glass – wikitude.com/glass
Epson Moverio BT-200 – wikitude.com/epson
Vuzix M100 – wikitude.com/vuzix
As each of these devices have their own specific requirements and use cases, Wikitude engineers have tailored the individual SDKs with both developers and end users in mind.
For instance, special consideration has been given to Google Glass as it is a heads up display, and not a full AR device.
Conversely, the Epson Moverio BT-200 is a full AR device, complete with a “see-through” mode which superimposes augmentations on a live view, whereas Google Glass and Vuzix provide augmentations as part of a live streaming video feed. The Wikitude SDK for the BT-200 has been specifically designed to support this “see-through” option, removing the camera image from the display. The Wikitude SDK includes a specifically calibrated version of the image recognition and tracking engine with support for the stereoscopic 3D mode available with the BT-200.
“We’ve done a lot of research, testing, and development with each device and their associated SDKs. With Wikitude providing developers with all the tools they need to create incredible wearable display experiences, we’re staying true to our ethos of powering the next generation of computing.” - Martin Herdina, CEO, Wikitude.
CraftAR is the flagship product of Catchoom (www.catchoom.com) that let’s anyone build an Augmented Reality experience in minutes. This highly scalable platform provides brands and publishers with a high-volume of objects to augment, enabling them to quickly and easily transform AR applications into compelling consumer marketing solutions.
CraftAR offers streamlined tools to instantly scan thousands of objects and choose between delivering AR or Image Recognition (IR) experiences. AR experiences merge with reality on mobile displays while IR experiences allow redirecting to product information or digital content in full-screen.
What makes CraftAR different?
It’s Easy: Anyone can build an AR experience through CraftAR; content can be created without development skills and no third party tool is needed. The Drag & Drop tool is simple to use and allows the user to link digital assets to real world objects, creating AR content from any Internet browser (no software download needed).
It’s Fast: CraftAR uses the most reliable image recognition solution in the market (http://bit.ly/S1oUzU) with benchmarked accuracy and speed as the top provider over three years.
It’s Big: Available on Mobile SDK for iOS and Android. CraftAR image recognition on the cloud provides millions of images and offers analytics for user interaction with content. The user receives full control of the database and content available in CraftAR’s CMS. The platform provides the flexibility to upload, update and control access to content without the need to re-publish the app.
How can CraftAR be used?
Free Sign Up: https://crs.catchoom.com/try-free
Developers can embed the functionality into an existing app or create a new app and use the Mobile SDK and open source examples.
Create content online or via API to automate the process. Users can also build their own content creation & management service and communicate with CraftAR services via APIs, creating entirely branded platforms.
Product: Wizart
Creators: Sander Veenhof & Luciano Pinna
Company: AugmentNL
Site: www.augmentnl.com
Description: The Wizart AR CMS was developed as a solution with which artists, designers and developers could quickly create geo-based AR. It consists of an intuitive web-based CMS and a Junaio channel with which the AR can be experienced. Users can upload images, 3D models, audio and video to be displaced somewhere in augmented space. These can be enhanced by adding all kinds of animations, realtime shadow and routes. Building and testing can be done in realtime, collaborative or alone, on-site or even off-site, for individual objects or whole routes. Wizart can be packaged as a stand-alone app for iOS, Android and Google Glass. It is used in the Dutch education system, the artist AR platform Zonietdantoch and several mobile apps.
Best Tools
You could win a free pass (2-day ticket valued at $695) to Augmented World Expo May 27-29 in Santa Clara California just by casting a vote in this category of The Auggie Awards!
The 5th annual Auggie Award™ Competition is where the best-of-the-best in the Augmented World compete for the one-of-a-kind Auggie Trophy.
We've rounded up entrants across five categories:
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Be sure and vote once in each category before May 23rd to increase your chances of being selected. In case you win and have already purchased a ticket - we'll reimburse you.
Winners will be announced during the Auggie Awards Ceremony on May 28th, 2014 and we'd love to have you there!
Read here for the Auggie Award official rules.
Read here for Terms and Conditions of ticket giveaway.
Creator/Company: NGRAIN
Web site: www.ngrain.com
Email: nballard@ngrain.com
We’re bringing Natural Human Interaction in the Virtual environment by reconstruction the 3D model of your hands and by providing robust tracking of individual fingers, plam position and orientation, posing gestures and hand openness.
The Hands and Fingers tracking SDK is available for free from SoftKinetic website and offers full hands and fingers tracking on Windows, Android and Linux.
The SoftKinetic DepthSense camera is available from SoftKinetic web store or from Amazon under the Creative SenZ3D camera.
The Unity samples and Oculus bracket is available from the Cool Stuff section of SoftKinetic website.
http://www.softkinetic.com/products/coolstuff.aspx
Website: layar.com
Product site: https://www.layar.com/products/custom-solutions/sdk/
Description:
EASILY EMBED LAYAR’S TECHNOLOGY INTO EXISTING MOBILE APPS
With the Layar SDK, you can keep your audience in your own branded apps while providing amazing, interactive experiences.
VISION SDK
Let your audience scan and enjoy Interactive Print content from your own mobile app. You can include campaigns produced in the Layar Creator, or content built using the Layar API with support for 3D and animation. Just embed the Layar Vision SDK to let your users start enjoying Interactive Print in your app.
GEO SDK
Enables you to give users the experience of Layar’s Geo Layers in your app. Geo Layers display location-based augments on top of a phone’s camera view. Anything with location data can be used!
Popular examples include Funda, which shows hyperlocal real estate listings for homes and apartments, and UAR, which displays architectural information about nearby buildings of the past, present and future.
http://metaio.com
The SDK is available for free download at http://metaio.com/products/sdk
The Metaio SDK supports:
- native iOS & Android apps
- cross-platform HTML5 apps
- Unity, or nearly any 3rd party rendering engine
- Google Glass, Vuzix headwear, Epson Moverio BT-200
Features:
- internal rendering engine based on OpenGL
- 2-D Marker & Markerless (images, surfaces, photos, planar objects etc) tracking
- 3-D point cloud recognition and tracking
- 3-D Dynamic environment tracking (SLAM)
- 3-D Edge-based tracking, the only available tracking that utilizes CAD data
- Continuous Visual Search for up to 100,000 images
- Cloud optimization and deployment
The Metaio SDK has been used professionally for over a decade by companies like IKEA, Audi, LEGO, Mitsubishi Electric and more to bring content to life and value to customers and workers. It’s the only SDK that offers industrial precision for tracking and has more versatility than any other platform.
ARPA SDK® is an Augmented Reality Software for creating amazing interactive experiences for augmented world geo apps, advertising, marketing campaigns, museums, games and much more. ARPA® SDK provides a simple and intuitive API for developing AR applications:
• ARPA® SDK Image Detection & Tracking Module
• ARPA® SDK GPS & Sensors Module
• ARPA® Plugin for Unity
• ARPA® GLASS SDK Image Recognition
• ARPA® GLASS SDK GPS
ARPA® SDK Image Detection & Tracking Module: Using ARPA® SDK, your application will be able to render real time video captured by the device camera and, simultaneously, display multimedia content over the detected markers.
ARPA® SDK Image Detection & Tracking Module: http://www.arpa-solutions.net/en/ARPA_SDK
ARPA® SDK GPS & Sensors Module: Using ARPA® GPS SDK module you can create AR applications based on geolocation, so that your application will be able to find points of interest (POIs) near to the user's location and show augmented information about how to get to them through three operating modes: AR, List and Map mode.
ARPA® SDK GPS & Sensors Module: http://www.arpa-solutions.net/en/ARPA_SDK
ARPA® Plugin for Unity allows you to easily create AR advergames using Unity, the most powerful and widely used game engine.
ARPA® Plugin for Unity: http://www.arpa-solutions.net/en/ARPA_Plugin_Unity
ARPA® GLASS SDK Image Recognition: Using this module, you can create AR apps for Google Glass that will be able to recognize images and display any kind of multimedia content related to those images.
ARPA® Glass SDK Image Recognition: http://www.arpa-solutions.net/en/ARPA_GLASS
ARPA® GLASS SDK GPS: this module allows developers to create AR apps for Google Glass based on geolocation. Your application will be able to find points of interest (POIs) near to the user's location and show information about how to get to them.
ARPA® Glass SDK GPS: http://www.arpa-solutions.net/en/ARPA_GLASS
Website: layar.com
Product site: layar.com/products/creator
Description: The Layar Creator is the perfect do-it-yourself tool to build and manage amazing, engaging Interactive Print experiences – all on the Web and with just a few clicks.
Stand out from the crowd and strengthen the power of print with interactivity.
Vuforia delivers best-in-class computer vision capabilities and a broad range of options for creative empowerment, including simultaneous tracking of multiple targets, video playback, virtual buttons, background effects and occlusion management (“X-ray vision”). It delivers robustness to ensure that app experiences work the first time – and every time. Vuforia 2.8, released in Fall 2013, added extended tracking, Java APIs and cloud-based content hosting. The new Smart Terrain feature (available in Spring 2014) uses advanced 3D geometric mapping techniques to see and reconstruct environments in real-time, giving apps the intelligence to interact with various objects and surfaces. Vuforia is supported by a global ecosystem of 95,000+ developers and has powered 8,500+ commercial apps globally.
This presentation was held at InsideAR, October 2013 in Munich at the release of oir beta-website. At AWE we will launch version 1.0, ready for the crowd to be served.
Website: http://www.armedia.it
Product site: http://www.armedia.it/armedia_products.php
The ARmedia Plugin and Player is an easy to use and cross-platform content creation tool for Augmented Reality.
The ARplugins allow users to create AR contents by using the tools directly provided by the most important 3D authoring programs including Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya, Trimble SketchUp, Maxon Cinema4D and Nemetschek Vectorworks.
The contents created with the ARplugin can be visualized using the ARmedia Player which is available for Mobile devices (iOS and Android) and for PC Windows / Mac OS X. The Plugin/Player also supports a variety of AR head mounted displays.
High quality and complex AR content can be created with the tools with almost no modification required for the original 3D models.
Inglobe has pioneered the ARplugin approach since 2008 with a user base growing up to +40.000 registered and active users.
Creating stunning apps for smart glasses just became a lot easier. The award winning Wikitude SDK does all the heavy lifting for you, allowing you to focus on creating incredible content that is specifically tailored to these unique platforms (Google Glass, Epson Moverio BT-200, Vuzix M100).
Each SDK is now available via the Wikitude Store and features:
★ Unlimited distribution for the licensed app
★ 3D model rendering
★ Image recognition and tracking
★ Video Augmentations
★ Location based AR
★ 6 months support
The device specific SDKs are available at:
Google Glass – wikitude.com/glass
Epson Moverio BT-200 – wikitude.com/epson
Vuzix M100 – wikitude.com/vuzix
As each of these devices have their own specific requirements and use cases, Wikitude engineers have tailored the individual SDKs with both developers and end users in mind.
For instance, special consideration has been given to Google Glass as it is a heads up display, and not a full AR device.
Conversely, the Epson Moverio BT-200 is a full AR device, complete with a “see-through” mode which superimposes augmentations on a live view, whereas Google Glass and Vuzix provide augmentations as part of a live streaming video feed. The Wikitude SDK for the BT-200 has been specifically designed to support this “see-through” option, removing the camera image from the display. The Wikitude SDK includes a specifically calibrated version of the image recognition and tracking engine with support for the stereoscopic 3D mode available with the BT-200.
“We’ve done a lot of research, testing, and development with each device and their associated SDKs. With Wikitude providing developers with all the tools they need to create incredible wearable display experiences, we’re staying true to our ethos of powering the next generation of computing.” - Martin Herdina, CEO, Wikitude.
CraftAR offers streamlined tools to instantly scan thousands of objects and choose between delivering AR or Image Recognition (IR) experiences. AR experiences merge with reality on mobile displays while IR experiences allow redirecting to product information or digital content in full-screen.
What makes CraftAR different?
It’s Easy: Anyone can build an AR experience through CraftAR; content can be created without development skills and no third party tool is needed. The Drag & Drop tool is simple to use and allows the user to link digital assets to real world objects, creating AR content from any Internet browser (no software download needed).
It’s Fast: CraftAR uses the most reliable image recognition solution in the market (http://bit.ly/S1oUzU) with benchmarked accuracy and speed as the top provider over three years.
It’s Big: Available on Mobile SDK for iOS and Android. CraftAR image recognition on the cloud provides millions of images and offers analytics for user interaction with content. The user receives full control of the database and content available in CraftAR’s CMS. The platform provides the flexibility to upload, update and control access to content without the need to re-publish the app.
How can CraftAR be used?
Free Sign Up: https://crs.catchoom.com/try-free
Developers can embed the functionality into an existing app or create a new app and use the Mobile SDK and open source examples.
Create content online or via API to automate the process. Users can also build their own content creation & management service and communicate with CraftAR services via APIs, creating entirely branded platforms.
Creators: Sander Veenhof & Luciano Pinna
Company: AugmentNL
Site: www.augmentnl.com
Description: The Wizart AR CMS was developed as a solution with which artists, designers and developers could quickly create geo-based AR. It consists of an intuitive web-based CMS and a Junaio channel with which the AR can be experienced. Users can upload images, 3D models, audio and video to be displaced somewhere in augmented space. These can be enhanced by adding all kinds of animations, realtime shadow and routes. Building and testing can be done in realtime, collaborative or alone, on-site or even off-site, for individual objects or whole routes. Wizart can be packaged as a stand-alone app for iOS, Android and Google Glass. It is used in the Dutch education system, the artist AR platform Zonietdantoch and several mobile apps.