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Universal Web-Based Tracking for Augmented Reality Applications

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Augmented Reality (AR) is a growing technology which begins to reach its maturity and address a broad spectrum of areas. However, current augmented reality applications still tend to be confined to a single use case or a single set of devices. In this paper, we explore web-based augmented reality systems using a single cross-platform binary to address a wide range of devices, which can dramatically decrease the developmental effort to create applications and therefore help to satisfy the growing demand for them. To this extent, we discuss the implementation of a feature tracking system using WebAssembly and evaluate its real-time capabilities on a wide range of devices and operating systems. Additionally, we also demonstrate a simple AR application making use of our tracker.

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This work has been partially funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany as part of the research projects PROWILAN and BeGreifen (Grant numbers 16KIS0243K and 16SV7525K).

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    Yannic Bonenberger, Jason Rambach, Alain Pagani & Didier Stricker

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  2. University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

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  3. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

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  4. Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Japan

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  5. University of Kaiserslautern and DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany

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Bonenberger, Y., Rambach, J., Pagani, A., Stricker, D. (2018). Universal Web-Based Tracking for Augmented Reality Applications. In: Bourdot, P., Cobb, S., Interrante, V., kato, H., Stricker, D. (eds) Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. EuroVR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11162. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01790-3_2

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