Summary

Inglobe Technologies provides several toolkits that can be used to develop AR applications for the web. These allow AR experiences to be delivered through a web-browser without the user needing to download any stand alone executable files.

Web based AR applications are ideal for marketing and can also be used for education, entertainment and a wide range of other areas. Web-based AR applications do not have as high a graphics quality as stand-alone applications, but they are far easier to use because they don’t need any additional software installation.

Software libraries for web based development include:

• FLARToolkit: Flash-based marker based tracking library
• FLARManager: High level Flash-based AR framework
• SLARToolKit: Silverlight marker tracking library

FLARToolKit

FLARToolKit is the Flash Actionscript (v3) version of ARToolKit that can be used to quickly develop web-based AR experiences. It is the most widely used Flash-based AR library with the support of a large developer community and many websites with example applications.
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FLARManager

FLARManager is a lightweight framework that makes it easier to build augmented reality applications for Flash. It is compatible with a variety of tracking libraries and 3D frameworks, and provides a more robust, event-based system for managing marker addition, update, and removal. It supports detection and management of multiple patterns, and multiple markers of a given pattern.
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SLARToolKit

SLARToolkit is a flexible AR library created to allow the development of real time AR applications with Silverlight as easy and fast as possible. It can be used with the Webcam API that was introduced in Silverlight 4 or with any other CaptureSource or WriteableBitmap.
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