Augmented reality with LiveCode ?

[Monte Goulding]

I noticed this the other day on cocoacontrols:
https://github.com/promet/PRAugmentedReality

Could be made into an external for LiveCode 

Cheers

Monte

On 30/06/2013, at 5:41 AM, Dave Probert <probert.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sergio,
> 
> Currently there are no tools (that I know of) to do Augmented Reality in
> livecode, but that does not mean that it cannot be done.
> 
> It really depends on what you mean by AR.  
> 
> There is AR where you overlay a video feed with data based on your position
> and where you are looking at - this can probably be done with some maths and
> a way of putting information on a video feed (an overlay).
> 
> The other AR most people think of is where you display some 3D model over a
> video feed (with position/orientation feedback) - this version cannot be
> done with Livecode as it is now.  LC does not have any useful 3D support -
> especially for IOS (and other mobile devices).
> 
> You can probably do the first version with a bit of web searching for some
> algorithms for the data positioning.  IOS devices mostly support
> position/orientation information as standard.
> 
> Hope that helps a bit,
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
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