Augmented Reality for Android Application Development

Live camera view in JME

In the preceding example, you got a glimpse of how you can access the Android camera with a low-level graphics library (standard Android library). Since we want to perform Augmented Reality, we will need to have another technique to overlay the virtual content over the video view. There are different ways to do that, and the best method is certainly to use a common view, which will integrate the virtual and video content nicely. A powerful technique is to use a managed 3D graphics library based on a scenegraph model. A scenegraph is basically a data structure that helps you to build elaborate 3D scenes more easily than in plain OpenGL® by logically organizing basic building blocks, such as geometry or spatial transformations. ...