2. Development software and applications

2.1 Qualcomm Vuforia

Vuforia is a software library for the development of augmented reality applications, offered free of charge by American integrated circuit manufacturer Qualcomm.

It enables the development of mobile applications on the following platforms: Android, IOS (Ipad and Iphone) and for Unity, a development "middleware" widely used in the world of console and computer games.

Vuforia implements high-performance algorithms for object recognition and tracking.

Once the object has been positioned in relation to the tablet camera (Figures 2 and