I am not sure how to achieve an effect like Google's 360 degree StreetView in Android. I have even came across the similar features in commonfloor's app. It has a 360 degree panaromic effect as shown in the link - CommonFloor's Live Tour
I have researched about this and couldn't find much resources. I am not even sure where should I start from? Are there any libraries already available for the same?
Found a library PanaromaGl but it has not been maintained since 2 years. Are there any alternatives before I decide to go for this library?
Thank you in advance
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My application's output would be a panorama photo. I looked around for solutions but I couldn't find one which I liked. Almost all of what I saw were an exact copy of a many years old project back on code.google, using GL ES 10 only.
I'd like possible good performance and I also want to avoid reinventing the wheel. Google's Open Spherical API (https://developers.google.com/streetview/open-spherical-camera/) is great, but I need an implementation for a viewer.
I'm wondering if it's possible to reuse StreetViewPanorama's capabilities to implement a 360 viewer leaving out the Google Maps portion. Looks like that getStreetViewPanorama requires a MapView. If not StreetViewPanorama, is there another API I could use?
Or is there some intent I can fire? In that case I should tell though that I periodically would like to update the displayed 360 image.
I would like to display an icon/image floating "beacon" on a specific GPS point. I would like to make it visible to the user, if the is around the location and pointing his device to the right direction. Like on the image, I've attached.
Please mind, I'm interested in Android solution, and I'm looking for pure coding or lovely libraries to use. In term of libraries, I would like to have one, which is not 2-3 years old, like to most of the google searches.
I would like to kindly ask you to help me out with some tutorial, or solution, because I haven't found anything usable yet.
Check out Wikitude's Augmented Reality SDK - more details.
It even provides "Browsing POI Samples" Sample Application that covers your scenario.
Best regards,
Andreas
I want to develop an android augmented reality application, in which app should have a function to reconstruct a destructed objects(ex : buildings/statues) as shown in the following video link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVjISxlhpU
I have gone through metaio, wikitude and vuforia sites each has some difficulties it self. and at Last i found vuforia has a feature call Smart Terrain where it is used for 3D animation and game development , the issue is only limited tutorials available to develop a customized application.
With that above link i found armedia.it and hyperspaces.inglobetechnologies.com those too have limited tutorials with the code.
Please let me know if any other SDK available their to fulfill my app feature share if there any useful tutorial to do such for the above sdk's
Thanks in advance
I do not think that there are any publicly available tools that can help you do this, except perhaps that armedia app. Reading through it, it seems like their approach is kind of laborious and fragile (align photos of user viewpoints with accurate 3D model). If you can't work through the tutorials these tools have, then posting here isn't going to get you what you want: SO is for asking specific technical questions (e.g., help fixing problems in code you have tried to build), not for general guidance and help.
FWIW, Vuforia's visual tracking will not work for something like this, I don't think, as is aimed at MUCH smaller scale things (for which you can build a target or object); typically things smaller than a person. Metaio is no longer available (Apple bought them).
Non-visual tracking (GPS + orientation) is not sufficient to attain this kind of tight registration.
My task is to develop application for Android that should be used by tourist. Basic use case: I am going through old part of some town and then i start my app, point with camera to some place and some old building that is already gone will be present in its place as it was before.
My first direction that i was exploring was location based recognizing, I tried some frameworks like Wikitude, MetaIO and DroidAR. None of these was 100% fulfilling my need, because (in my opinion), noone was using (for its robustness) the newest tools that should make easier this task, like new Google Play Services Location API. I dont know if I could do better but I would prefer not to write my own solution.
I am now thinking about exploring marker based recognition but it would require additional work to place some markers to desired places and I dont believe that user would be in right angle and distance to that marker. I have seen some video that used some sort of edge detection but none of frameworks I used had this feature.
Do you know about some direction, technology or idea that I could explore and may lead to successful solution?
Augmented Reality will transfer real coordinates system to camera coordinates system. In AR Location-based, the real coordinate is Geographic coordinate system. We will convert the GPS coordinate (Latitude, Longitude, Altitude) to Navigation coordinate (East, North, Up), then transfer Navigation coordinate to Camera coordinate and display it on camera view.
I just create demo for you, not using any SDK
https://github.com/dat-ng/ar-location-based-android
I personally recommend you to use "Wikitude". Because I have created AR app for android using Wikitude SDk.
Also here I'm providing you app link which has been developed by Wikitude itself.
See below link :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wikitude&hl=en
This app will give you brief idea about exploring place details using Wikitude Sdk. These sdk have free as well as paid library. It is well documented & very easy to implement. Also they have given very good sample practices for beginners.
Refer this link :
http://www.wikitude.com/products/wikitude-augmented-reality-sdk-mobile/wikitude-sdk-android/
I hope this will take you on track.
you already had some great ideas about your app. I guess these links will make you to learn more.
See links below:
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERB1101.pdf
http://www.adristorical-lands.eu/index.php/sq/augmented-reality-app
Hope this will help you to go further in your project. Thank you.
Since i began programmation this forum provides me all that i always need! i want to thank you for... Thanks for all!!!!
Now i'm here to asking a problem that i not found it yet here.
I'm working on an android application. In my app, i have to read an android panorama which must be on a distant server. I have two problems to do this and hope u to save:
1. I take a panorama from my phone and When i connect it to PC from copying my panorama, this one become a simple jpeg image. I don't know how and why!!!
2. I have no idea on how to view panorama on android. I search on google, on android forums and still at my beginning point, i have to present my application next week!!!
So i give myself to you for bringing me out from this depth.
Thanks.
there's this library that do that with spherical cubic and cylindrical panoramic imagesPanoramaGL
and there's the utility with the google Play Services libs but only for spheric images refer to this :
Android Support for Photo Sphere