Processing for Android: Create Mobile, Sensor-aware, and XR Applications Using Processing

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A. ColubriProcessing for Androidhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9585-4_17

17. Basics of AR

Andrés Colubri¹  

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University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA, USA

 

After VR, the next stop in our journey through Extended Reality is AR. As with VR, Processing for Android includes a library allowing us to easily code AR apps for users to interact with virtual objects placed in real space.

A Brief History of AR

Virtual and augmented reality have shared origins and history. We cited in the previous chapter the head-mounted display created by Sutherland and students in 1968, which is often considered to be one of the first direct precursors of both VR and AR systems. ...