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April 19, 2011

NyARToolkit Augmented Reality on iOS

In preparation for the Augmented Reality class that Jonathan Blocksom and I taught at the recent iPhone / iPad devcon, Using AVFoundation video capture, we modernized and completed the example found at morethantechnical.com using NyARToolkit (GPL) on iOS. It's a great example of the kinds of things we can do now that we have fast devices with cameras to play with.

You can view a shaky video of the example running on an iPad 2 here.
You can get the code from github here.

Be aware that this code is GPL, which (among other things) means that you have to release any changes you make to the code under GPL and that this code cannot be used in a commercial project. There is also some speculation that the terms of using the App Store preclude GPL licensed projects as well. Caveat Coder.

Simplified building of OpenCV on iOS is coming soon

During Jonathan Blocksom's iPhone/iPad Devcon Computer Vision talk, for which I was honored to play guest artist, I mentioned that I would create and release an Xcode project that makes building OpenCV on iOS a simpler affair. I'm working on it and it's coming along nicely. Get in touch if you would like to test what I have so far at an email address that is easy to figure out using "my first name at this domain dot calm". Otherwise, stay tuned!