Arcabouço para o desenvolvimento de aplicações de realidade aumentada para dispositivos portáteis com o uso de múltiplos sensores.

Abstract

Over the years, researchers and developers have found many areas that can take benefit from Augmented Reality (AR). The first systems were focused on military, industrial and medical applications, but commercial and entertainment systems appeared soon after. The AR applications on handheld devices are slowly becoming a reality as new features, sensors, increased processing power and faster data networks are emerging and being added to these devices. However, it is still complex to develop such kind of applications for portable devices and a possible cause is the high demand of knowledge required for their implementation. Despite these difficulties, the necessary components have remained the same since the first works, dating from the 60s. But, it is difficult to find frameworks or viable ways of developing systems that can make use of multiple sensors together (like camera, GPS, accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope). In this work, it is presented a framework for the development of augmented reality applications for handheld devices using multiple sensors. The framework hides the complexity from the developer of this kind of applications and thus allows to focus on the application and not on the details involving the AR.