Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at 9:52AM Augmented Reality Toolkit for the iPhone on GitHub
Cocoa, augmented reality, github, iPhone | Niels Hansen
A couple of weeks ago I got very interested in doing an Augmented Reality Application for the iPhone and one of business partners had a great idea for a game. Instead of starting from scratch I decided to see if there was any existing open source projects I could use as base.
I started searching on GitHub and found a very good start of a toolkit. I downloaded the original code and really liked where it was going. However there were several things I felt I could do to make the code a bit less complicated and say many ways to improve it!
I've forked the original project and have begun to make the many changes I think could make it into a better toolkit. I want to thank the original developers for getting me started and doing some of the heavy lifting.
I plan on blogging about the changes I've made and what I plan on adding to the toolkit.
This should allow me to create the application I'm interested in making but also provide everyone who is interested a great toolkit to make their own projects as well.
It currently has a long way to go but now that I have the code in a manner that I want, I can really start adding the code to make this great!
You can check out the project on GitHub.com
Reader Comments (7)
Thanks for sharing your work. I downloaded the ARToolkit Demo and installed it. When it runs there is just a blank screen. Are there any hints or links or search terms you could provide to using/modifying it?
Thank you again,
Robert
What version of the iPhone are you using?
Hi Neils! thanks for sharing the work on AR. Currently, I see that the link to the project github you have mentioned above is broken.
However, I see other projects forked from yours such as https://github.com/nielswh/iPhone-AR-Toolkit. The last commit seems to be in may 2010. Is there any update to the toolkit since then? if so, can you please provide me the link to latest version. Thanks, again for your efforts.
-Niraj
Hi,
I have started using ARKit downloaded from https://github.com/nielswh/iPhone-AR-Toolkit to view predefined map points on iPhone. So far its cool but I have noticed that when I have couple of map points close together, ARKit overlaps their windows frames with each other and we can't see the clear information. Is there any way to get rid of it so that windows frames don't overlap and they stake on one another?
Thanks.
Paresh
Hi!
Great project!
I'm using your library for my new project i'm developing. I just love it, so easy to use and does what it is supposed to do.
I was just wondering about the status on the project, how is it going, and what is the plan?
Have a great summer and thanks for a wonderful library!
Hey,
Quick question, when i run the demo project on iOS 4.3, it just crashes upon startup. Are there any newer versions out there that i could have a look at / how can it be fixed?
New version of the project has been updated with lots of improvements.