Augmented Reality Apps: New FLARManager Video Tutorial
Lee Brimelow, a well known evangelist at Adobe Platform, has just posted a new FLARManager free video tutorial on how to create Augmented Reality (AR) applications in a simpler manner, as compared with FLARToolkit, the AS3 ported version of ARToolKit software library for creation of AR apps.
According to Lee Brimelow, FLARManager library is a better alternative to FLARToolkit when multiple markers are used:
“This library makes things much easier than using the FLARToolkit directly, especially when dealing with multiple markers. In this example I display a video on a 3D plane that follows the AR marker. The tutorial also covers how to properly create markers using a new online tool.”
In essence, FLARManager represents a lightweight framework intended to reduce the development complexity of FLARToolkit AR apps for Flash. FLARManager provides compatibility with many popular 3D engines like Away3D, Papervision3D, Alternativa3D or Sandy3D.
With FLARManager an event-based system is employed for efficiently managing marker addition, deletion or editing process. The most important feature is represented by the support for organizing and detection of multiple patterns, as well as multiple markers of a given pattern.
After watching the video tutorial about how to use the friendly environment of FLARManager to build Augmented Reality applications, you will be able to easily deploy your own AR apps with FLARManager.
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