Augmented Reality for Android Application Development

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced the foundational background of AR. We've presented some of the main concepts of AR, such as sensory augmentation, dedicated display technology, real-time spatial registration of physical and digital information, and interaction with the content.

We've also presented computer vision-based and sensor-based AR systems, the two major trends of architecture on mobile devices. The basic software architecture blocks of an AR application have also been described and will be used as a guide for the remaining presentation of this book. By now, you should have installed the third-party tools used in the coming chapters. In the next chapter, you will get started with viewing the virtual world and implementing camera access ...