The project

The Library AR Project is a collaborative effort from Mandal public library and Oslo Science Library to find practical application for Augmented Reality (AR) usage in a library and see which current available platforms are suitable. Also a protoype using the chosen platform will be developed for testing.

The two functionalities we want this prototype to have are:

We are using mobile phones as physical units (rather than eyeglasses or head mounted displays) because we see this as more practical and available at the moment (late 2018).

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Evaluation of different platforms

As part of the project, we have evaluated 7 different platforms:

  1. AR.js
  2. WebXR
  3. 6d.ai
  4. ARCore
  5. Vuforia
  6. Wikitude

Read more about the platform evaluation

Blog

Check out the project blog for updates from the project and our AR prototype app.

The finished prototype

Description of the finalized app

The code

Download the code here