How to add Augmented Reality in an application ?

@martinbean Hmmm ... ok ... It's for an application for treasure hunts.

The treasure hunt owner can take a photo of a place and add a virtual object on it.

When the treasure hunter points his smartphone to the right place, the virtual object appears on the screen.

@vincent15000 This is going to very client-side heavy. You’d probably be better off creating a native app, and using dedicated libraries (i.e. ARKit on iOS) as you’re going to need request permissions for the user’s device camera etc. The only thing a web application is going to be responsible for here is maybe exposing an API that say what objects are at what real world coordinates.

@vincent15000 also it was asked here:

https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/way-to-implement-ar-in-laravel

There are Github packages you can at least have a look at to get more ideas of how it all works.

@martinbean @jlrdw Thank you both.

I never worked with AR, but I thought that there would probably be more efficient with a native app.

Hum ... well ... ok, I will have a look at all this (native app vs API).

I will have a look at all this (native app vs API).

@vincent15000 It’s not one or the other. You’re not going to create an augmented reality app using an API only. Augmented reality is very much a client-side thing. As I mentioned before, the only thing an API would be used for is to tell the client side where objects are in relation to the real world.

@jdc1898 It looks interesting, but I first wanted to avoid to create a mobile app.