10.02.2011

Augmented Reality by Qualcomm

Qualcomm is offering an interesting AR SDK. Android developers can grab it via the Qualcomm's QdevNet. The development kit looks quite promising and also offers Unity 3 integration.

There has also been an AR Challange which closed at the end of 2010. Developers were asked to create the best next-genereation augmented reality application using the Qualcomm's AR SDK. The prize money is set to $200,000. The winners will be announced on February 15, 2011. It's a pitty that the AR SDK is not available for the iPhone since it only works with Qualcomm processor based devices.

Mobile augmented reality is still in a very early phase. There are a bunch of SDK's which enable vision based AR. The biggest challenges are still the dependencies on platforms and the integration of AR into larger systems such as »real« middlewares and location-based services.

But the future looks promising. Besides Qualcomm there are also other developers who try to tackle this issue and make AR even »more available« and easy to use, like for example Tonchidot with its SekaiCamera. Although some of the features seem promising the SekaiCamera is lacking 3D support plus the way objects are displayed is not sophisticated yet. But for sure it's only a question of time to see new, more complex AR platforms arise.

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