Open Source Mac AR Development Software

The Augmented Reality Tool Kit (ARToolKit) captures images from video sources, optically tracks markers in the images, and composites them with computer-generated content using OpenGL. Dual-licensed, under the GPL, plus commercially by ARToolworks, Inc. NEW: A free demonstration of ARToolKit capabilities has been made available as part of ARToolworks "Codex Interactivus: Bringing Leonardo to Life!" Kickstarter project. Download from https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/artoolworks/codex-interactivus-bringing-leonardo-to-life/

This project enables developers to build XR experiences using the same code that runs on the web. Exokit engine is written on top of Node and emulates a web browser, providing native hooks for WebGL, WebXR, WebAudio, and other APIs used in immersive experiences. The future is immersive. The web is the best application platform. Javascript is the best ecosystem. It's not possible to do both 2D and 3D well. We don't do 2D. We can use an external 2D browser. Exokit empowers and connect apps, even (especially) if they aren't designed to cooperate. Apps should run in "reality tabs", layers of reality that blend together. Exokit is a Javascript Node.js module. C++ bindings hook into WebGL, WebXR, Magic Leap, Leap Motion, and various other device APIs. Exokit runs on Windows, macOS, Linux (x64), Linux (ARM64), and Magic Leap (ARM64).

Minerva is a multiplatform framework that provides a high level language to specify Augmented Reality applications in a very easy way, equivalent to Blender GameEngine. More info, please visit theminervaproject.wordpress.com

AREA is an expert assistant that allows you to offer to your clients or audience information about your brand, localization, event and more, all in one mobile app. Just use our webpage to create your entire assistant and once you are glad with the result, extend the code, configure your assistant and compile your finished mobile assistant.

ATOMIC is a Cross-platform Authoring Tool software for Augmented Reality Applications Is a Front-end for the ARToolKit library , developed for non-programmers, for create small and simple, AR applications. + info: www.sologicolibre.org/en/

Aardvark is a framework for building augmented reality "gadgets" that run on top of virtual reality experiences. Gadgets are constructed using a bunch of custom React components (from the @aardvarkxr/aardvark-react package) and run in the Aardvark application. Gadgets use these components to show interactive models, 2D UI, or other stuff that will draw on top of any VR applications you run. You can attach these gadgets to your hands and bring them with you in your favorite VR apps. If you just want to make gadgets, your best bet is to use a released build. Just download and run the latest released installer, then run aardvarkxr.exe from the install directory. Once you've installed you can also enable Aardvark to start automatically in the Startup/Shutdown settings in SteamVR. Aardvark is made up of "gadgets". These are 3D objects that do something useful, something fun, or maybe they just look cool.

The main feature of ApertusVR is the so called "Distributed Plugin-in Mechanism" which means that not only humans could be involved in a multi-user virtual reality scene but any element of the Internet of Things like hardware, software, robot or any kind of smart device. ApertusCore is a programming library written in C++11, that fulfills modern software requirements as it is modular, embeddable, platform-independent, and easily configurable. It contains basic software interfaces and modules for logging, event-handling, and for loading plugins and configurations. It is also responsible for distributed data synchronization. ApertusVR is a set of plugins that extend ApertusCore with XR (AR/VR/MR) capabilities, which help to integrate XR technologies into new/existing developments, products rapidly. It creates a new abstraction layer over the hardware vendors in order to use different display and control devices in any product or service.

Hover UI Kit is a tool for creating beautiful, customizable, dynamic user interfaces. All interface interactions utilize a simple and consistent mechanism, the "hover", which users can perform with any 3D input device. These interfaces are designed specifically for VR/AR applications, addressing the complex UX challenges of these immersive environments. Virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) applications must provide ways for users to interact -- to select items, to move them, to modify them, to trigger actions, to control their virtual world. The user experience (UX) can become increasingly complex as new features are introduced, leading to a long list of application-specific interactions that can conflict with each other and can be difficult for users to learn. Hover UI Kit is built to solve this problem. It is a tool for creating beautiful, customizable, dynamic user interfaces.

The open source augmented reality server, or POI (Point of Interest) search. In its simplest form, it takes a database of points with latitude/longitude, and a search request at a given latitude/longitude, and returns the points sorted by distance.

This library contains among other things a set of graphical widgets for video output, performance evaluation and augmented reality. The library also provides classes for several data types usually required by computer vision and image processing applications such as vectors, matrices, quaternions and images. Thanks to a large number of wrapper functions these objects can be used with highly efficient functionality from third party libraries such as OpenCV, GNU Scientific Library, Computational Geometry Algorithms Library, Intel's Math Kernel Library and Integrated Performance Primitives, the Octave library, etc...

RealityUI is a collection of user interface classes for RealityKit. The classes included in RealityUI aim to offer familiar User Interface guidelines, but in a 3D setting for Augmented and Virtual Reality through RealityKit. The User Interface controls in this repository so far are made to be familiar to what people are used to with 2D interfaces, however the plan is to expand the tools on offer to new and unique controls, which are more appropriate for an Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality context. RUISwitch is a 3D toggle switch with an on and off state. Default bounding box is 2x1x1m. RUIStepper is used to increment or decrement a value. Default bounding box is 2x1x0.25m. An interactive track to represent an interpolated value. Default bounding box is 10x1x1m including thumb. RUIButton is used to initiate a specified action. The action here will only trigger if the gesture begins on a button, and also ends on the same button.

This project aims to develop an interaction framework based on body detection by webcams, identifying the skeleton shape (hands, arms, head, legs etc), for games, virtual reality, augmented reality and other applications.

Use the WebXR Device API today, providing fallbacks to native WebVR 1.1 and Cardboard. A JavaScript implementation of the WebXR Device API, as well as the WebXR Gamepad Module. This polyfill allows developers to write against the latest specification, providing support when run on browsers that implement the WebVR 1.1 spec, or on mobile devices with no WebVR/WebXR support at all. The polyfill reflects the stable version of the API which has shipped in multiple browsers. If you are writing code against the WebVR 1.1 spec, use webvr-polyfill, which supports browsers with the 1.0 spec, or no implementation at all. It is recommended to write your code targeting the WebXR Device API spec however and use this polyfill as browsers begin to implement the latest changes. The minimal input controls currently supported by WebXR is polyfilled here as well, using the Gamepad API.

jARToolKit - A Java-binding to the Augmented Reality library ARToolKit supporting GL4Java, JOGL and Java3D