Augmented reality with LiveCode ?

[Brahmanathswami]

I think Augmented Reality may have a variety of implementations. So it 
probably depends on what you want to do.

FWIW:  Our printer for Hinduism Today magazine, Quad Graphics,  has just 
done a major sales pitch (to me) to buy  their augmented reality 
"product" which is based on a mobile app called "Actable  billed as

"A Universal discovery App -- unlock rewards, coupons, quick buy 
opportunities with Actable. Actable is a valuable tool for QR Scanning." 
(available free on the iTunes store)

they have some big magazines using this now... though I can't get any 
metrics from them on success rate...

The way it works is: you  print some "trigger" image on a page of your 
magazine.. users pass mobile device over it with Actable running and 
then you get some video or other media playing on top of what you see. 
If the editorial article has related videos.. these started playing. If 
advertisement for something, then you have a video demonstrating the 
product... etc. and of course hooks to points of sale... (launch browser 
to go buy it.)

Typically these sales pitches are way out of our league, they will want 
the publisher to pay a fortune to license content on their servers etc. 
usually not a model I'm interested in... kind of "software as a service" 
model... These apps are just a "hook" to get you to then pay big time 
for hosting content and bandwidth on their CDN. Since we have our own 
server, I don't need to pay more for that "half" of the application... I 
just need something that I could install on my own machine, we have 
plenty of space and bandwidth.

I immediately thought that some smart LiveCode Developer could probably 
get into this market.. and undercut the big corporations with something 
that e.g. we could use that would trigger content that we would host on 
our own servers.

So what I'm saying is I think there would be a market to

a) build such an app
b) build the LiveCode Server site API needed for delivery

then sell that package to the publisher. I think this has some 
advantages for the developer because he does not need to develop a 
business plan to handle the hosting of all the content. If he needs disk 
space in the cloud, that is his problem, not yours...

But (I'm asking Quad about this) it needs to really be fully digital... 
ideally, you could trigger the augmented reality from a PDF, or ePub 
being viewed, say, on a tablet... then you would really have 
something... Of course these are not much more than clickable links in a 
PDF or ePub... that's nothing new... (we do that now) but if it were 
seamless with a scannable printed image trigger in the physical 
magazine... all working in the same framework... then you would have 
something!


Brahmanathaswami
www.HimalayanAcademy.com



Sergio Schvarstein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way or tool for creating an Augmented Reality app for iOS using LiveCode ?
>
> Thanks:-)