Top 10 AR Tools for App Development
Augmented Reality is getting immensely popular and is used in many different fields from industries to healthcare and more. Everyone is familiar with this new trend and one can build great applications using Augmented Reality.
People think that AR is mainly an entertainment technology, but that’s not actually true. Many brands are already using this advanced technology for providing an easy to use and friendly mobile application. It is used by companies to create demos for their products, real-time information and interactive advertising. Augmented reality is helpful in business because it is proved that people are more likely to buy a product if they can interact with it.
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Types of Augmented Reality application
Augmented reality applications are broadly classified into two major categories.
Marker-based applications and Location-based application. The former is based on image recognition. These types of apps use a marker of black and white color to display the AR contents.
The later uses GPS technology and not the markers. It uses the GPS, accelerometer or compass of mobiles to detect the location and then argument objects on their actual positions.
For developing apps based on augmented reality, you need app building tools. Some of the best tools to build Augmented Reality applications are listed below.
Vuforia
Vuforia is one of the best tools for developing applications based on Augmented Reality. It comes with a number of useful features using which one can design great performing AR applications. It also supports all the major platforms including Android and iOS.
It supports multiple objects like boxes, toys, images, etc. And also supports text recognition.
ARToolkit
ARToolKit is a popular open source tool for developing AR based applications. In spite of being free to use application and it still contains some of the advanced features found in top paid tools. It even supports both single and dual cameras. Another useful feature of this tool kit is that it supports Digital compass and GPS using which location-based AR app can be created effortlessly.
The platform it supports include iOS, Android, Linux, Windows, etc.
Google ARCore
Another top tool for AR app creation comes from the digital leader Google. ARCore is a really good tool which is loaded with features. This tool works with unreal, utility and Java. Some of the features of ARCore include Monitor tracking, Environment Understanding, Light estimation, etc. Google AR supports almost all the android devices working on 7.0 or higher version.
Apple ARKit
When talking about best AR app development tools you just can’t forget the ARkit from Apple. The ARkit was announced in July 2017 and it only supports iOS devices. Some of the main features of Apple ARKit includes VIO or Visual Inertial Odometry, Face Tracking, Tracking light levels, etc. This toolkit contains some really smart features which can create unbeatable iOS apps.
MAXST
Is a leading AR app development toolkit which Has two SDKs one is 2D SDK which tracks the images and the other one is 3D SDK which recognizes the environment. Main features of MAXST include QR and barcode tracking, Extended Image tracking and Utility Plugin Integrations. It supports Windows, iOS, Android and MacOS making it a perfect tool.
Wikitude
Wikitude SDK7 is a new tool which can also be a great tool for AR apps. In spite of being a new tool, it still works great and comes with many new features like Location-based services, 3D recognition, Smart glass integration and more. However, you need to pay a high sum of money for this tool kit.
Kundan
Kundan is almost similar to Vuforia in terms of its features. It is one of the biggest competitors of Vuforia as well. It only supports uOS ad Android platform and some of its main features includes high-quality 3D graphics, marker-based and location-based tracking, etc. It supports different camera sensors as well.
Deep AR
It might not be very popular in the AR app development, but it is a great player which is capable of creating great Augmented Reality Applications. It supports facial detection, location tracking a real-time tracking. The tool is suitable for both iOS and Android devices.
Xming
Xming is a toolkit which is designed in Hong Kong. The tool is specially designed for face tracking and it does its job perfectly. Then it has all the major AR tool kit features for designing various AR based apps. It offers features like augmented vision, magic face detection etc.
EasyAR
EasyAR is again a good alternative to Vuforia and it is free to use AR toolkit. But you should never underestimate it as it comes with various new features. So if you are looking for free to use toolkit, you must consider EasyAR.
So these are the top ten performers in the field of AR app development and each one of them comes with their own uniqueness and specialty.
Author Bio :- Rahul Som is a CEO and co-founder of Hopinfirst, one of the top Mobile App development Company which provide best ios app development and Android app development Services. Rahul is passionate about Startups, Technology and management and blogs frequently on the topics.
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